Truth to tell, the longer I live, the more I'm tempted to think that the only moderately worthwhile people in the world are you and I..

Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment..

I shall possess this woman; I shall steal her from the husband who profanes her: I will even dare ravish her from the God whom she adores. What delig….

Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The criminal has his virtues, just as the honest man has hi….

I see you are already as timid as a slave: you might as well be in love..

I assure you that the world is not so amusing as we imagined..

...it is not for the illusion of a moment to govern the choice of a lifetime..

When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal..

La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid.

All publicity is good publicity..

How characteristic of your perverse heart that longs only for what happens to be out of reach..

It has become necessary for me to have this woman, so as to save myself from the ridicule of being in love with her: for to what lengths will a man n….

Revenge is a dish that is best served cold..

One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave..

I willingly allow that money does not guarantee happiness; but it must also be allowed that it makes happiness a great deal easier to achieve..

A man enjoys the happiness he feels, a woman the happiness she gives..

Don't you remember that love, like medicine, is only the art of encouraging nature?.

I can see that you're in love, but only in a very narrow sense. It's the love of someone that finds charms and qualities in a woman that she doesn't ….

Marquise de Merteuil: I've distilled every thing to one single principle: win or die..

It was there, in particular, that I confirmed the truth that love, which we cry up as the source of our pleasures, is nothing more than an excuse for….

Either you have a rival or you don't. If you have one, you must please in order to be preferred to him, and if you don't you must still please-in ord….