Madame La Fayette Quotes & Sayings

There are those to whom we dare give no sign of the love that we feel for them, except in things that do not touch them directly; and, though one dares not show them that they are loved, one would at least like them to see that one does not wish to be loved by anyone else. One would hope them to know that there is no beauty, whatever her rank in society, whom one would not look upon with indifference, and that there is no crown that one would wish to purchase at the price of not seeing them again. — Madame De La Fayette

One may forgive infidelity, but one does not forget it. — Madame De La Fayette

I have left all my business and all my husbands; I have taken with me only fair weather and my children, which is as much as I want. — Madame De La Fayette

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself. — Sandra Day O'Connor

Only when the little charade was nearly complete did Frances understand what it was all about. The spot at which Lilian had been grasping lay just above her heart. She had been drawing an imaginary stake from it. — Sarah Waters

You love writing; I hate it; and if I had a lover who expected a note from me every morning, I should certainly break with him. Let me beg you then not to measure my friendship by my writing ... — Madame De La Fayette

I don't like directing that much to want a career as a director for hire. I like to have as much creative control as possible. — Peter Jackson

Even the old should learn. — Aeschylus

The Marshall Plan was the ultimate weapon deployed on this economic front. After the war, the German economy was in crisis, threatening to bring down the rest of Western Europe. Meanwhile, so many Germans were drawn to socialism that the U.S. government opted to split Germany into two parts rather than risk losing it all, either to collapse or to the left. In West Germany, the U.S. government used the Marshall Plan to build a capitalist system that was not meant to create fast and easy new markets for Ford and Sears but, rather, to be so successful on its own terms that Europe's market economy would thrive and socialism would be drained of its appeal. — Naomi Klein

I imagine she came out of the birth canal holding a cupcake and a spatula. — Katja Millay

Books make the best ersatz friendships. — Nenia Campbell

In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying. — John Sebastian

If I had a lover who wanted to hear from me every day, I would break with him. — Madame De La Fayette

Always tell the Truth : where it is not loved, it is respected and feared. — Thomas Fuller

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent. — Will Durant

Most mothers think that to keep young people away from love-making it is enough never to speak of it in their presence. — Madame De La Fayette

In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous. — Albert Einstein

One is very weak when one is in love. — Madame De La Fayette

If you judge by appearances in this place,' said Mme de Chartres, 'you will often be deceived, because what appears to be the case hardly ever is. — Madame De La Fayette

Part of me knew I'd never see her again, and if I did, that we would both be different. — Hugh Howey

We pardon infidelities, but we do not forget them. — Madame De La Fayette

Apparently Mayella's recital had given her confidence, but it was not her father's brash kind: there was something stealthy about hers, like a steady-eyed cat with a twitchy tail. — Harper Lee

If one thinks that one is happy, that is enough to be happy. — Madame De La Fayette