Louise Colet Quotes

• It is better not to be loved than to be ill-loved or half-loved.

  Louise Colet

  Half, Ill

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• Doubt the man who swears to his devotion.

  Louise Colet

  Men, Doubt, Devotion

  "Tools Of Speech" by Maturin M. Ballou, (p. 519), 1886.

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• Before we love with our heart, we already love with our imagination.

  Louise Colet

  Heart, Imagination

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• The happiest woman sees not gladness alone reflected from her mirror; its surface will inevitably be sometimes dimmed with sighs.

  Louise Colet

  Mirrors, Sometimes, Bliss

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• Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception.

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  Art, Successful, Flirting

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• The laws of decency enforce themselves.

  Louise Colet

  Law, Decency

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• Misfortune comes to people who live only on the memory of their past grandeur.

  Louise Colet

  Memories, Past, People

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• You know what they say, 'You have to work at wisdom; you have to take pains to be reasonable, but to be foolish, just let yourself go.

  Louise Colet

  Pain, Foolish, Reasonable

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• Untimely conduct is the discord of manners.

  Louise Colet

  Manners, Discord

  "Tools Of Speech" by Maturin M. Ballou, (p. 108), 1886.

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• Alas! How enthusiasm decreases, as our experience increases!

  Louise Colet

  Enthusiasm, Increase, Decrease

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• Coquetry is the art of successful deception.

  Louise Colet

  Art, Successful, Deception

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• When greatness descends from its lofty pedestal, it assumes human dimensions.

  Louise Colet

  Greatness, Pedestal, Dimensions

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