Greatness Descends Quotes by Louise Colet

You know what they say, 'You have to work at wisdom; you have to take pains to be reasonable, but to be foolish, just…

— Louise Colet

When greatness descends from its lofty pedestal, it assumes human dimensions.

— Louise Colet

Before we love with our heart, we already love with our imagination.

— Louise Colet

Alas! How enthusiasm decreases, as our experience increases!

— Louise Colet

It is better not to be loved than to be ill-loved or half-loved.

— Louise Colet

Untimely conduct is the discord of manners.

— Louise Colet

The laws of decency enforce themselves.

— Louise Colet

Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception.

— Louise Colet

The happiest woman sees not gladness alone reflected from her mirror; its surface will inevitably be sometimes dimmed with sighs.

— Louise Colet

Misfortune comes to people who live only on the memory of their past grandeur.

— Louise Colet

Coquetry is the art of successful deception.

— Louise Colet

Doubt the man who swears to his devotion.

— Louise Colet