“if I inflict wounds, I heal them.” IfsWoundsHealRepentance Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
“[After being corrected by a grammarian for using the feminine pronoun instead of the pseudogeneric masculine:] As you please, but for my part, if I were to express myself so, I should fancy I had a beard.” IfsShouldPleaseFancyFeminineMasculineBeardPronouns Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
“long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at the end of a journey, we should never stir from the place we were then in: but Providence in kindness to us causes us to forget it. It is much the same with lying-in women. Heaven permits this forgetfulness that the world may be peopled, and that folks may take journeys to Provence.” IfsWorldShouldMindMayLongEndsLyingHeavenCausesForgetKindnessJourneyStrangeTravelFolksPermitProvidenceForget ItForgetfulnessStrange ThingsLong JourneyProvenceEnd Of Journey Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
“. . . long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at the end of a journey, we should never stir from the place we were then in . . .” IfsShouldMindLongEndsJourneyStrangeStrange ThingsLong JourneyEnd Of Journey Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
“If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.” IfsGivingShouldLittlesOptimismPatienceMortificationTime Patience Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
“If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear, how will you ever manage?” IfsThinkingWellsFeelingsDearManageChocolateAgain And AgainDessertReviveSweets And DessertsNot Feeling Well Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne