Top 58 Marie De Sevigne Quotes

#1. There are some people who never acknowledge themselves in the wrong; God help them!

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#2. The human heart will never wrinkle.

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#3. Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind.

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#4. Occupation is the best safeguard for women under all circumstances
mental or physical, or both. Cupid extinguishes his torch in the atmosphere of industry.

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#5. Faith creates the virtues in which it believes.

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#6. Religious people spend so much time with their confessors because they like to talk about themselves.

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#7. Oh Dear! How unfortunate I am not to have anyone to weep with!

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#8. It is sometimes best to slip over thoughts and not go to the bottom of them.

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#9. This life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we desire, we are only so much the nearer losing it; and when at a distance from it, we live in expectation of enjoying it again.

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#10. Fortune is always on the side of the largest battalions.

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#11. Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfection.

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#12. There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

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#13. Long life will sometimes obscure the star of fame.

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#14. The heart has no wrinkles.

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#15. [After being corrected by a grammarian for using the feminine pronoun instead of the pseudogeneric masculine:] As you please, but for my part, if I were to express myself so, I should fancy I had a beard.

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#16. We like no noise unless we make it ourselves.

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#17. Death makes us all equal ...

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#18. It is not always sorrow that opens the fountains of the eyes ...

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#19. I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long.

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#20. If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear, how will you ever manage?

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#21. Good and evil travel on the same road, but they leave different impressions.

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#22. It is a disgraceful thing to be ignorant ...

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#23. It seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to die when all the world wishes it.

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#24. There is no one who does not represent a danger to someone.

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#25. I love you so passionately, that I hide a great part of my love, so as not to oppress you with it.

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#26. We are so fond of hearing ourselves spoken of, that, be it good or ill, it is still pleasing.

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#27. Ah, what a grudge I owe physicians! what mummery is their art!

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#28. Ingratitude calls forth reproaches as gratitude brings renewed kindnesses.

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#29. The heart never becomes wrinkled

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#30. War often breaks out when there is the most talk of peace.

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#31. When we reckon without Providence, we must frequently reckon twice.

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#32. There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things

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#33. It is day by day that we go forward; today we are as we were yesterday and tomorrow we shall be like ourselves today. So we go on without being aware of it, and this is one of the miracles of Providence that I so love.

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#34. We must always live in hope; without that consolation there would be no living.

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#35. Matrimony is a very dangerous disorder; I had rather drink.

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#36. There is nothing so lovely as to be beautiful. Beauty is a gift of God and we should cherish it as such.

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#37. Gloom and sadness are poison to us, and the origin of hysterics. You are right in thinking that this disease is in the imagination; you have defined it perfectly; it is vexation which causes it to spring up, and fear that supports it.

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#38. We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us.

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#39. In all nations truth is the most sublime, the most simple, the most difficult, and yet the most natural thing.

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#40. If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.

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#41. The world has no long injustices.

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#42. When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

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#43. We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.

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#44. Nothing is so capable of overturning a good intention as to show a distrust of it; to be suspected for an enemy, is often sufficient to make a person become one ...

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#45. The days, and the months, and the years, pass so swiftly, that I can no longer retain them. Time, in its flight, hurries me away, in spite of myself; in vain I endeavor to stop him, he drags me along: the thought of this alarms me.

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#46. It is freezing fit to split a stone.

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#47. It is the fine rain that soaks us through.

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#48. Happiness, like misfortunes, never comes alone.

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#49. There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.

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#50. The most astonishing, the most surprising, the most marvelous, the most miraculous ... the greatest, the least, the rarest, the most common, the most public, the most private till today ... I cannot bring myself to tell you: guess what it is.

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#51. Friendships take work. Use disagreements as opportunity to come out better on the other side

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#52. We like so much to talk of ourselves that we are never weary of those private interviews with a lover during the course of whole years, and for the same reason the devout like to spend much time with their confessor; it is the pleasure of talking of themselves, even though it be to talk ill.

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#53. I know of no sorrow greater than that occasioned by a delay of the post.

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#54. It is thus that we walk through the world like the blind, not knowing whither we are going, regarding as bad what is good, regarding as good what is bad, and ever in entire ignorance.

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#55. True friendship is never serene.

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#56. I pity those who have no taste for reading ...

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#57. I am persuaded that the greater part of our complaints arise from want of exercise.

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#58. I dislike clocks with second-hands; they cut up life into too small pieces.

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