François Rochefoucauld Quotes
+18All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.
- François Rochefoucauld
+1Women know not the whole of their coquetry.
- François Rochefoucauld
+1We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
- François Rochefoucauld
+1Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
- Francois Rochefoucauld
+1Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
- Francois Rochefoucauld
+1Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company.
- François Rochefoucauld
+1If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at least she makes them totter.
- François Rochefoucauld
+1What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own.
- François Rochefoucauld
+1Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
- François Rochefoucauld
+1We speak little if not egged on by vanity.
- François Rochefoucauld
+1As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
- Francois Rochefoucauld
+1Jealousy lives upon doubts, it becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
- François Rochefoucauld
+1Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it.
- François Rochefoucauld
+1Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
- François Rochefoucauld
+1True eloquence consists of saying all that should be said, and that only.
- Francois Rochefoucauld
+1We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.
– Francois Rochefoucauld
+1If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.
- François Rochefoucauld
+1We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
- Francois Rochefoucauld
+1To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.
— Francois Rochefoucauld
+1Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.
- Francois Rochefoucauld
+1Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.
- François Rochefoucauld
+1Everyone complains of his memory, but no one complains of his judgment.
- Francois Rochefoucauld
+1Hope is the last thing that dies in man.
- Francois Rochefoucauld
+1We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
- François Rochefoucauld
+1In jealousy there is more of self love than love.
- Francois Rochefoucauld