Grows Quotes by Diane de Poitiers

The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's.

— Diane de Poitiers

Tact is good taste in action.

— Diane de Poitiers

It is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.

— Diane de Poitiers

Men at any age truly never grow up. All, no matter what importance they may have attained, are still no more than little boys.

— Diane de Poitiers

It is only love that has already fallen sick that is killed by absence.

— Diane de Poitiers

Calumny is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms.

— Diane de Poitiers

It is easier to win love than to keep it.

— Diane de Poitiers

We only make a dupe of the friend whose advice we ask, for we never tell him all; and it is usually what we…

— Diane de Poitiers

... see well how it often befalls that to rise to the topmost degree would make it seem that the abyss is on high.

— Diane de Poitiers

To have a good enemy, choose a friend; he knows where to strike.

— Diane de Poitiers

Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death.

— Diane de Poitiers