Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans famous quotes

Coffee is not as necessary to ministers of the reformed faith as to Catholic priests. The latter are not allowed to marry, and coffee is said to induce chastity.
-- Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans

#Coffee #Catholic #Ministers

We are generally punished by where we have sinned.
-- Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans

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One who no longer wishes to laugh had best marry in France; they will soon find that it is no laughing matter.
-- Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans

#Marriage #Laughing #Wish

I fancy that England is not the only place where married folks disagree, and where there are bad husbands. If one does not care to meet with such cases, one must quit this world. Those wishing to enter the marriage state had better not come to me for advice, for I disapprove of it altogether.
-- Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans

#Marriage #Husband #Advice

It may be said of happy marriages as of the phoenix - there is but one a century.
-- Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans

#Marriage #Phoenix #May

since piety has become the fashion at Court, dramatic authors imagine that their pieces would be more welcome if they added in a little devotion. At first their plan succeeded, but now no one can bear their comedies.
-- Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans

#Fashion #Would Be #Pieces

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.

And so taking the long way home through the market I slow my pace down. It doesn't come naturally. My legs are programmed to trot briskly and my arms to pump up and down like pistons, but I force myself to stroll past the stalls and pavement cafes. To enjoy just being somewhere, rather than rushing from somewhere, to somewhere. Inhaling deep lungfuls of air, instead of my usual shallow breaths. I take a moment to just stop and look around me. And smile to myself. For the first time in a long time, I can, quite literally, smell the coffee.

Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.

I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.

Those who are seeking the true religion will never find it outside the Catholic Church alone, because, in every other religion, if they trace it up to the author, they will find some impostor whose imagination furnished a mass of sophisms and errors

Yeah, well I'm not aspiring to be the Prime Minister.

No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to.

My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.

I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.