Shall I tell you what makes love so dangerous? 'Tis the too high idea we are apt to form of it. — Ninon de L'Enclos Copy Share Image
There are no perfect women in the world; only hypocrites exhibit no defects. — Ninon de L'Enclos Defects Copy Share Image
A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told. — Ninon de L'Enclos Divine Copy Share Image
There is a certain time of life, when we value a good stomach more than the mind. — Ninon de L'Enclos Copy Share Image
A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them — Ninon de L'Enclos Feminism Copy Share Image
I have always sworn to my lovers to love them eternally, but for me eternity is a quarter of an hour. — Ninon de L'Enclos Copy Share Image
A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a lover. — Ninon de L'Enclos Feminism Copy Share Image
“That which is striking and beautiful is not always right, but that which is right is always beautiful ” — Ninon de L'Enclos Beautiful Copy Share Image
When our desires are fulfilled, we never fail to realize the wealth of imagination and the paucity of reality. — Ninon de L'Enclos Desire Copy Share Image
Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs when placed beneath it. — Ninon de L'Enclos Advent Copy Share Image
Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see… — Ninon de L'Enclos Acting Copy Share Image
The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience. — Ninon de L'Enclos Feminism Copy Share Image
Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to… — Ninon de L'Enclos Action Copy Share Image
We should lay in a store of food, but never of pleasures; these should be gathered day by day. — Ninon de L'Enclos Day by day Copy Share Image
Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly. — Ninon de L'Enclos Copy Share Image
A woman should not take a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her reason. — Ninon de L'Enclos Consent Copy Share Image
