Delphine de Girardin Quotes
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Instinct is the nose of the mind.
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Business is other people's money.
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Love with men is not a sentiment, but an idea.
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Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society.
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The best religion is the most tolerant.
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There is only one proper way to wear a beautiful dress: to forget you are wearing it.
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Infidelity, like death, admits of no degrees.
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Treasures are not for youth; at twenty years of age, one does not know how to be rich, or how to be loved.
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For ages happiness has been represented as a huge precious stone, impossible to find, which people seek for hopelessly. It is not so; happiness is a mosaic, composed of a thousand little stones, which separately and of themselves have little value, but which united with art form a graceful design.
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Eternal Inner Peace has to be cultivated daily.
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Proof that they do not understand the republic is that in their fine promises for universal suffrage, they forgot women.
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Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls.
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To love the one who loves you, To admire the one who admires you, In a word, to be the idol of one's idol, Is exceeding the limit of human joy; It is stealing fire from heaven.
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