Margaret of Valois-Angoulême Quotes

Though jealousy be produced by love as ashes are by fire, yet jealousy extinguishes love, as ashes smother the flame.

As two unhappy people often will, the one sought out the other.

They cry sour grapes when the object of their desires is beyond their grasp.

I never knew a mocker who was not mocked, ... a deceiver who was not deceived, or a proud man who was not humbled.

Man is wise ... when he recognises no greater enemy than himself.

Ilz font semblant de n'aymer poinct les raisins quand ilz sont si haults, qu'ilz ne les peuvent cueillir.

Un malheureux cherche l'autre.

I have heard much of these languishing lovers, but I never yet saw one of them die for love.

He who knows his own incapacity, knows something, after all.

Marriage is an estate of long duration, and one which should not be entered into lightly or without the approval of our closest friends and relatives.

Some there are who are much more ashamed of confessing a sin than of committing it.

To me it seems much better to love a woman as a woman, than to make her one's idol, as many do. For my part, I am convinced that it is better to use than to abuse.

Mariage est un état de si longue durée, qu'il ne doit être commencé légèrement, ne sans l'opinion de nos meilleurs amis et parents.

No one ever perfectly loved God who did not perfectly love some of his creatures in this world.

When one has one good day in the year, one is not wholly unfortunate.