Two Quotes by Arsene Houssaye

Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when we set foot on it.

— Arsene Houssaye

Friendship lives on its income, love devours its capital.

— Arsene Houssaye

The heart is always young only in the recollection of those whom it has loved in youth.

— Arsene Houssaye

The graves of those we have loved and lost distress and console as.

— Arsene Houssaye

Hope is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens beaten to as in the midst of every tempest.

— Arsene Houssaye

There are two persons in the world we never see as they are, one's self and one's other self.

— Arsene Houssaye

Imagination, whatever may be said to the contrary, will always hold a place in history, as truth does in romance. Has not romance been…

— Arsene Houssaye

The Parisienne is not in fashion, she is fashion.

— Arsene Houssaye

Whoever embarks with women embarks with a storm; but they are themselves the safety boats.

— Arsene Houssaye

Up to forty a woman has only forty springs in her heart. After that age she has only forty winters.

— Arsene Houssaye

Genius has its fatality. Must we not see in its works a manifestation of the will of Providence?

— Arsene Houssaye

Have you not sometimes seen happiness? Yes, the happiness of others.

— Arsene Houssaye