Steel assassinates; the passions kill.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
The anticipation of evil courts evil.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Intrigue is a court distemper.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Delicacy is the parent of decency.
—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
Very few men understand the true significance of contentment; women alone illustrate it.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
There is one antidote only for coquetry, and that is true love.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Alas, could experience be bought for gold!
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
There is a vein of inconsistency in every woman’s heart, within whose portals love hath entered.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Topics: Love, Woman, Heart, Character
One crime is everything; two nothing.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Topics: Criminals, Crime, Character
The most dangerous acquaintance a married woman can make is the female confidante.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Topics: Woman
I have only to take up this or that to flood my soul with memories.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection.—Is not this sad?
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Topics: Evil, Belief, Good, Character, Reflection
Heartlessness and fascination, in about equal quantities, constitute the receipt for forming the character of a court coquette.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Topics: Character
The wrinkles of the heart are more indelible than those of the brow.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Topics: Character, Heart
They teach us to dance; O that they could teach us to blush, did it cost a guinea a glow!
—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
There is but one book for genius – nature.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Topics: Character, Genius, Nature
We are so desirous of vengeance that people often offend us by not giving offence.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Audacity as against modesty will win the battle over most men.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
The hen of our neighbor appears to us a goose, says the Oriental proverb.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fancy.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
What is a woman’s surest guardian angel? Indifference.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Conceited people are never without a certain degree of harmless satisfaction wherewith to flavor the waters of life.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Discreet women have sometimes neither eyes nor ears.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Gold does not satisfy love; it must be paid in its own coin.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Familiarity and satiety are twins.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Women do not fancy timid men.
—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
What is joy? A sunbeam between two clouds.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Topics: Focus, Work
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