“Were it not for the amusement of our books, we should be moped to death for want of occupation. It rains incessantly. ... we tickle ourselves in order to laugh; to so low an ebb are we reduced.” WantShouldBookOrderLaughingLowsRainBoredomOccupationAmusementIncessantlyMopeds 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
“There is nothing so lovely as to be beautiful. Beauty is a gift of God and we should cherish it as such.” ShouldBeautifulBeautyLovelyCherishGift From God 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