Suzanne Curchod Quotes

Fortune does not change [people], it unmasks them.

Make your best thoughts into action.

Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.

One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.

A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous.

Love is the only possession which we can carry with us beyond the grave.

The old age of women is bearable only on condition that they do not take up any room, do not make any noise, do not demand any service; on condition that they render all the service that is expected of them, and actually have no existence except for the good of others.

Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.

Elegance is exquisite polish.

The heart of a good man is the sanctuary of God in this world.

Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.

The more heart, the more sorrow.

Indulgence, twin sister of guilt.

One can impose silence on sentiment, but one can not give it limits.

The revolting details of childbirth had been hidden from me with such care that I was as surprised as I was horrified, and I cannot help thinking that the vows most women are made to take are very foolhardy. I doubt whether they would willingly go to the altar to swear that they will allow themselves to be broken on the wheel every nine months.

Recognized probity is the surest of all oaths.

Want of perseverance is the great fault of women in everything--morals, attention to health, friendship, and so on. It cannot be too often repeated that women never reach the end of anything through want of perseverance.

It is often a sign of wit not to show it, and not to see that others want it.

Love is the pass-key to the heart.

A woman must be truly refined to incite chivalry in the heart of a man.

The most subtle flattery that a woman can receive is by actions, not by words.

You may be more prodigal of time than of money.

Dignity and love do not blend.

How immense to us appear the sins we have not committed.

It is never permissible to say, I say.