They teach us to dance; O that they could teach us to blush, did it cost a guinea a glow!
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Heartlessness and fascination, in about equal quantities, constitute the receipt for forming the character of a court coquette.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Topics: Character
Amiable people, though often subject to imposition in their contact with the world, yet radiate so much of sunshine that they are reflected in all appreciative hearts.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
There is a vein of inconsistency in every woman’s heart, within whose portals love hath entered.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Topics: Heart, Woman, Love, Character
The anticipation of evil courts evil.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Employment and ennui are simply incompatible.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Topics: Character, Employment
What is a woman’s surest guardian angel? Indifference.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
A coquette is a woman without any heart, who makes a fool of a man that hasn’t got any head.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Alas, could experience be bought for gold!
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Topics: Enemy, One Step at a Time, Master, Forgiveness, Beginnings, Friendship, Great
The hen of our neighbor appears to us a goose, says the Oriental proverb.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Perseverance and audacity generally win.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Topics: Risk, Perseverance
Nothing so truly becomes feminine beauty as simplicity.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Some people regret that they have poor memories. Alas! It is much more difficult to forget.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Topics: People, Character, Regret
Familiarity and satiety are twins.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
It requires a great deal of poetry to gild the pill of poverty, and then it will pass current only in theory; the reality is a dead failure.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Topics: Talking
It is a shrewd device to pretend we have someone unimportant fault,?it overshadows so many serious defects.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Delicacy is the parent of decency.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Gold does not satisfy love; it must be paid in its own coin.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
The wrinkles of the heart are more indelible than those of the brow.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Topics: Character, Heart
Very few men understand the true significance of contentment; women alone illustrate it.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
One crime is everything; two nothing.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Topics: Crime, Character, Criminals
Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fancy.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
If ever I am an instructress, it will be to learn more than to teach.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Topics: Teaching, Will, Learn
Dignity and pride are of too near relationship for intermarriage.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
There is but one book for genius – nature.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Topics: Genius, Character, Nature
Women do not fancy timid men.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Women are far more impulsive than men; this is because they are more influenced by the heart than the head.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Why are we so blind?—That which we improve, we have; that which we hoard, is not for ourselves.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
The most dangerous acquaintance a married woman can make is the female confidante.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Topics: Woman
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