Suzanne Curchod Quotes

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How immense appear to us the sins that we have not committed.

Suzanne Curchod
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
For three days and nights I suffered the tortures of the damned, and Death was at my bedside, accompanied by his satellites in the shape of a species of men who are still more terrible than the Furies, and who have been invented for the sole purpose of horrifying modesty and scandalizing nature.

Suzanne Curchod
Glow-worms are the image of women: when they are in the dark, one is struck with their brilliancy; as soon as they appear in the broad light of the world, one sees them in their true colors, with all their defects.

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

Suzanne Curchod
Travel improves superior wine and spoils the poor: it is the same with the brain.

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

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

Suzanne Curchod
To be loved is to receive the greatest of all compliments.

Suzanne Curchod
A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity nor conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.

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

Suzanne Curchod
Man should place himself above prejudices, and woman should submit to them.

Suzanne Curchod
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
When death consents to let us live a long time, it takes successively as hostages all those we have loved.

Suzanne Curchod
Men are like money: we must take them for their value, whatever may be the effigy.

Suzanne Curchod
High positions are like the summit of high, steep rocks: eagles and reptiles alone can reach them.

Suzanne Curchod
The weaknesses of women have been given them by nature to exercise the virtues of men.

Suzanne Curchod
How many things have we esteemed that we despise, and how many joys have resulted in afflictions!

Suzanne Curchod