Quotes by Novelist

"If there is a fruit that can be eaten raw, it is beauty."

"We are most alive when we're in love."

"If women only knew the extent of their power!"

"If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious."

"Love is like the wind, you can't see it, but you can feel it."

"Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one."

"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses."

"We can invent only with memory."

"Flowing water is at once a picture and a music, which causes to flow at the same time from my brain, like a limpid and murmuring rivulet, sweet thoughts, charming reveries, and melancholy remembrances."

"Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral."

"The more the change, the more it is the same thing."

"If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers."

"Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end."

"Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom."

"One expresses well only the love he does not feel."

"A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women."

"Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness."

"I am thankful that thorns have roses."

"Women's glances express what they dare not speak."

"I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love."

"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself."

"A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked."

"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved."

"Almost every one flatters himself that he and his are exceptionable."