Ninon de L'Enclos

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.

— Ninon de L'Enclos

Old age is a woman's hell.

— Ninon de L'Enclos

A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them

— Ninon de L'Enclos

The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.

— Ninon de L'Enclos

Soft moonlight and tender love harmonize together wonderfully.

— Ninon de L'Enclos

Gentleness! more powerful than Hercules.

— Ninon de L'Enclos

I hold those wise who know how to be happy.

— Ninon de L'Enclos

Who has not raised a tombstone, here and there, over buried hopes and dead joys, on the road of life? Like the…

— Ninon de L'Enclos

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

Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.

— Ninon de L'Enclos

“That which is striking and beautiful is not always right, but that which is right is always beautiful ”

— Ninon de L'Enclos

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

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

If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet.

— Ninon de L'Enclos

Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.

— Ninon de L'Enclos

Inconstancy is the child of satiety.

— Ninon de L'Enclos

It requires infinitely a greater genius to make love, than to make war.

— Ninon de L'Enclos

Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.

— Ninon de L'Enclos

Glances are the first billets-doux of love.

— Ninon de L'Enclos

There are other things besides beauty with which to captivate the hearts of men. The Italians have a saying: "Fair is not…

— Ninon de L'Enclos

There are no perfect women in the world; only hypocrites exhibit no defects.

— Ninon de L'Enclos

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

— Ninon de L'Enclos

Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices.

— Ninon de L'Enclos

It is not enough to be wise, one must be engaging.

— Ninon de L'Enclos

Old age is women's hell.

— Ninon de L'Enclos