Occupation: Novelist Birth: May 20, 1799 Death: August 18, 1850
Love which economizes is never true love..
Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves!.
People who are in love suspect nothing or everything..
The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it..
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for a Christian….
Passion is born deaf and dumb..
Behind every fortune there is a crime..
Pity is woman's sweetest charm..
The more one judges, the less one loves..
When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army.
Our greatest fears lie in anticipation..
When an intelligent man reaches the point of inviting self-explanation and offers surrendering the key to his heart, he is assuredly riding a drunken….
The man whom fate employs to awaken love in the heart of a young girl is often unaware of his work and therefore leaves it uncompleted..
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul..
One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy..
France is a country that loves to change their government if it is always the same..
Conventions are often more cruel than the law..
And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink..
The key to all sciences is unquestionably the question mark. To the word How? we owe most of our greatest discoveries. Wisdom in life may perhaps con….
Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament..
Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy..