Comtesse Quotes & Sayings

If you want to succeed in the world it is necessary, when entering a salon, that your vanity should bow to that of others. — Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse De Genlis

Edward? Yes yes yes. It is me. Edward thought. — Kate DiCamillo

The Comtesse's fellow prisoners in this antechamber to death were characteristic of the ill-assorted gatherings thrown together in Revolutionary prisons: duchesses and prostitutes, actresses and politicians: the Duchesse de Crequy-Montmorency and Madame Roland; Madame du Barry and Madame Brissot; the random debris of a sunken ship thrown together for a moment by the tide of fortune and a moment later violently dispersed. All of them were already ghosts, standing on the shoreline of the last limits of life, waiting their turn for Charon and his grim tumbrel to ferry them across the Styx. — Stanley Loomis

In our lonely hours we awake those sleeping images with which our memories are stored, and vitalize them again. — Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse De Genlis

They were so absorbed in their plotting that they did not hear Boule de Suif return. But the Comte's whispered 'shh!' made them all look up. There she was. A sudden silence fell, and at first a feeling of embarrassment prevented them from speaking to her. At last, however, the Comtesse, more of an adept than the rest in social duplicity, asked her: 'Did you enjoy the christening? — Guy De Maupassant

Yet most women I know - no matter how clever, no matter how strong - are dragged down by husbands or fathers or titles or too many petticoats, or priests clutching at their hems, telling them, 'No, you cannot do that, you cannot be that.' I never listened. That's rare. Even a woman like the Comtesse pretends to pay attention to the sermons and the instructions, but then does whatever she wishes. I — Kelly Gardiner

The talkers and writers resent being left on the sidelines by the doers. — Thomas Sowell

How are we justly to determine in a world where there are no innocent ones to judge the guilty? — Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse De Genlis

Desire is simple," he said. "Desire is something even a machine can understand." There was a stillness in the air that mirrored the stillness of his body. "But when I desired you I began to love you. You were the first being I ever loved. I didn't know it, of course. I had no idea what it meant, no idea what I was feeling. Love was never something I was supposed to experience. I don't think I was supposed to know desire, either, but she never expected me to meet you." He laughed against her skin. "Later, after your father ... when he took out those restrictions, I was finally able to understand the complexities of love. Even if I didn't want to. At first. — Cassandra Rose Clarke

Do not sanction an absurdity. — Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse De Genlis

Sport, Madame la Comtesse, sport," asserted Lord Antony, with his jovial, loud and pleasant voice; "we are a nation of sportsmen, you know, and just now it is the fashion to pull the hare from between the teeth of the hound." "Ah, — Emmuska Orczy

I can't believe how blessed I am! I'm married to the most wonderful man, Gene Raymond, whom I'm deeply in love with, and, my career is right where I want it to be. I can live like this forever! — Jeanette MacDonald

Ah! the spendthrift, love: it gives all and everything with the first sigh! — Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse De Genlis

When you see someone do what no one else is doing take notice. Something truly special is about to happen.
Not only will they be lifted up, they will lift up those around them as well. That is called leadership. — Tom Krause

Sensibility cannot be acquired; people are born thus, or they have it not. — Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse De Genlis

Every day is a new day and every sunrise brings hope to the hopeless". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Wisdom and prudence are always recompensed. — Comtesse De Segur

I don't need that much to live - we don't need that much to have a wonderful life. I learned that from animals. — Carrie Ann Inaba

There's a reason I hate jigsaw puzzles. I don't have the patience to find all the border pieces, especially when they're all the same shade of gray. — Ann Aguirre

Homeliness is the best guard of a young girl's virtue. — Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse De Genlis