40 Quotes by Suzanne Curchod

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

You may be more prodigal of time than of money.

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

Fiction is a potent agent for good – in the hands of the good.

Romance is the poetry of literature.