"A woman is faithful to her first..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second.
More by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
“The mind cannot long play the heart's role.”
“Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility.”
“It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be able give good advice to oneself.”
More on Love
“How hard it is for people to live without someone to look down upon-really to look down upon. It is not just that they feel cheated out of someone to hate. It is that they are compelled to look more closely into themselves and what they don't like about themselves.”
“There is none of my uncle's marks upon you; he taught me how to know a man in love; in which cage of rushes I am sure you are not prisoner.”
“Those loves which are for the sake of a colour are not love. In the end they are a disgrace.”
More on Relationships
“I love all those girls the same as they love me. I get thousands of letters a week from girls who love me.... Every time I sing a song, I make love to them. I'm a boudoir singer.”
“"Well, well!" said my aunt. "I only ask. I don't depreciate her. Poor little couple! And so you think you were formed for one another, and are to go through a party-supper-table kind of life, like two pretty pieces of confectionery, do you, Trot?"”
“But because they didn't see each other very often, their relationship had more ups and downs than either of them had experienced before. Since everything felt right when they were together, everything felt wrong when they weren't.”