Alas! How enthusiasm decreases, as our experience increases!

- Louise Colet

It is better not to be loved than to be ill-loved or half-loved.

- Louise Colet

Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception.

- Louise Colet

When greatness descends from its lofty pedestal, it assumes human dimensions.

- Louise Colet

Coquetry is the art of successful deception.

- Louise Colet

Misfortune comes to people who live only on the memory of their past grandeur.

- Louise Colet

Before we love with our heart, we already love with our imagination.

- Louise Colet

The laws of decency enforce themselves.

- Louise Colet

Doubt the man who swears to his devotion.

- Louise Colet