Nicolas Chamfort - Woman Quotes

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If you would estimate the extent of a woman's pride in youth, see how much remains even after she has passed the age of pleasing.

Nicolas Chamfort
It is a common saying that the most beautiful woman in the world can only give what she has. This is entirely false. She gives exactly what the recipient thinks he has received; for imagination fixes the value of this sort of favor.

Nicolas Chamfort
Madame X. is a woman of too much wit and cleverness to be ever despised as much as some women less despicable.

Nicolas Chamfort
Foolish, ignorant and vicious persons go to books for their thoughts and judgments, and for all their elevated and noble sentiments, just as a rich woman goes with her money to a draper.

Nicolas Chamfort
The only secret a woman guards inviolably is that of her age.

Nicolas Chamfort
Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.

Nicolas Chamfort
A witty woman once told me something which may well be the genuine secret of her sex: that in choosing a lover each one of her kind takes more account of how other women regard him than of how she regards him herself.

Nicolas Chamfort
That a liaison between a man and a woman may be truly interesting, there must be between them enjoyment, remembrance, or desire.

Nicolas Chamfort
Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.

Nicolas Chamfort