Suzanne Curchod famous quotes

The old age of women is bearable only on condition that they do not take up any room, do not make any noise, do not demand any service; on condition that they render all the service that is expected of them, and actually have no existence except for the good of others.
-- Suzanne Curchod

#Age #Demand #Noise

In looking around me seeking for miserable resources against the heaviness of time, I open a book and I say to myself, as the cat to the fox: I have only one good turn, but I need no other.
-- Suzanne Curchod

#Book #Cat #Foxes

Remarkable places are like the summits of rocks; eagles and reptiles only can get there.
-- Suzanne Curchod

#Ambition #Eagles #Rocks

That woman is happiest whose life is passed in the shadow of a manly, loving heart.
-- Suzanne Curchod

#Retirement #Heart #Shadow

A woman must be truly refined to incite chivalry in the heart of a man.
-- Suzanne Curchod

#Heart #Men #Chivalry

Reason ought not, like vanity, to adorn herself with ancient parchments, and the display of a genealogical tree; more dignified in her proceedings, and proud of her immortal nature, she ought to derive everything from herself.
-- Suzanne Curchod

#Vanity #Tree #Proud

Want of perseverance is the great fault of women in everything--morals, attention to health, friendship, and so on. It cannot be too often repeated that women never reach the end of anything through want of perseverance.
-- Suzanne Curchod

#Perseverance #Want #Faults

Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.
-- Suzanne Curchod

#Order #House #Opera

Obligation is the bitterest thraldom.
-- Suzanne Curchod

#Obligation

For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue.
-- Suzanne Curchod

#Years #People #Quality

The more heart, the more sorrow.
-- Suzanne Curchod

#Heart #Sorrow

One can impose silence on sentiment, but one can not give it limits.
-- Suzanne Curchod

#Giving #Silence #Feelings

The revolting details of childbirth had been hidden from me with such care that I was as surprised as I was horrified, and I cannot help thinking that the vows most women are made to take are very foolhardy. I doubt whether they would willingly go to the altar to swear that they will allow themselves to be broken on the wheel every nine months.
-- Suzanne Curchod

#Thinking #Broken #Doubt

It is often a sign of wit not to show it, and not to see that others want it.
-- Suzanne Curchod

#Want #Wit #Shows

You may be more prodigal of time than of money.
-- Suzanne Curchod

#Time #May

Our own cast-off sorrows are not sufficient to constitute sympathy for others.
-- Suzanne Curchod

#Sympathy #Sorrow #Casts

A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous.
-- Suzanne Curchod

#Writing #Rejection #Style

It were no virtue to bear calamities if we did not feel them.
-- Suzanne Curchod

#Bears #Virtue #Calamity

Love is the only possession which we can carry with us beyond the grave.
-- Suzanne Curchod

#Love #Love Is #Graves

Recognized probity is the surest of all oaths.
-- Suzanne Curchod

#Probity #Oath

Fiction is a potent agent for good--in the hands of the good.
-- Suzanne Curchod

#Hands #Agents #Fiction

Indulgence, twin sister of guilt.
-- Suzanne Curchod

#Guilt #Twins #Twin Sister

Gallantry thrives most in the atmosphere of the court.
-- Suzanne Curchod

#Atmosphere #Gallantry #Court

Elegance is exquisite polish.
-- Suzanne Curchod

#Elegance #Polish #Exquisite

Dignity and love do not blend.
-- Suzanne Curchod

#And Love #Dignity

One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.
-- Suzanne Curchod

#Character #Firsts #Speak

Make your best thoughts into action.
-- Suzanne Curchod

#Action

Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.
-- Suzanne Curchod

#Wise #Wish #Becoming

Innocence and mystery never dwell long together.
-- Suzanne Curchod

#Long #Together #Innocence

Love is the pass-key to the heart.
-- Suzanne Curchod

#Love #Heart #Keys

The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms. Everything is more beautiful when they have passed.
-- Suzanne Curchod

#Beautiful #Summer #Love Is

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
-- Suzanne Curchod

#Appreciation #Self

When death gives us a long lease of life, it takes as hostages all those whom we have loved.
-- Suzanne Curchod

#Death #Giving #Long

The heart of a good man is the sanctuary of God in this world.
-- Suzanne Curchod

#Heart #Men #Good Man

Romance is the poetry of literature.
-- Suzanne Curchod

#Romance #Literature

Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.
-- Suzanne Curchod

#Men #Giving #Heaven

Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.
-- Suzanne Curchod

#Love #Everyday #World

The most subtle flattery that a woman can receive is by actions, not by words.
-- Suzanne Curchod

#Action #Flattery #Subtle

It is never permissible to say, I say.
-- Suzanne Curchod

#Egotism

Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.
-- Suzanne Curchod

#Opinion #Stubbornness #Obstinacy

How immense to us appear the sins we have not committed.
-- Suzanne Curchod

#Prejudice #Sin #Committed

Fortune does not change [people], it unmasks them.
-- Suzanne Curchod

#People #Doe #Wealth