Mme. Louise Colet Quotes. C.N. Douglas, comp. 1917. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical

C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Mme. Louise Colet


Alas! how enthusiasm decreases as experience increases!	1
Coquetry is the art of successful deception.	2
Doubt the man who swears to his devotion.	3
Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception.	4
The happiest woman sees not gladness alone reflected from her mirror; its surface will inevitably be sometimes dimmed with sighs.	5
The laws of decency enforce themselves.	6
The rubbish of the past.	7
Untimely conduct is the discord of manners.	8
When greatness descends from its lofty pedestal, it assumes human dimensions.	9