Suzanne Curchod Quotes

Recognized probity is the surest of all oaths.

Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.

Make your best thoughts into action.

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

For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue.

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

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

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.

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

It is never permissible to say, I say.

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

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

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.

Innocence and mystery never dwell long together.

When death gives us a long lease of life, it takes as hostages all those whom we have loved.

Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.

Elegance is exquisite polish.

The more heart, the more sorrow.

Romance is the poetry of literature.

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

Remarkable places are like the summits of rocks; eagles and reptiles only can get there.

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

Fiction is a potent agent for good--in the hands of the good.

That woman is happiest whose life is passed in the shadow of a manly, loving heart.

In looking around me seeking for miserable resources against the heaviness of time, I open a book and I say to myself, as the cat to the fox: I have only one good turn, but I need no other.

Dignity and love do not blend.

Obligation is the bitterest thraldom.

Gallantry thrives most in the atmosphere of the court.

Love is the pass-key to the heart.

Indulgence, twin sister of guilt.

You may be more prodigal of time than of money.

Our own cast-off sorrows are not sufficient to constitute sympathy for others.

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

It were no virtue to bear calamities if we did not feel them.

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

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