Top 15 Margaret of Valois-Angoulême Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

Blessed, unquestionably, is he who has it in his power to do evil, yet does it not.

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

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.

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.

God always helps madmen, lovers, and drunkards.

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

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

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

Un malheureux cherche l'autre.

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