5 Quotes Tagged: bel-ami

Now listen carefully: Marriage, to me, is not a chain but an association. I must be free, entirely unfettered, in all my actions — my coming and my going; I can tolerate neither control, jealousy, nor criticism as to my conduct. I pledge my word, however, never to compromise the name of the man I marry, nor to render him ridiculous in the eyes of the world. But that man must promise to look upon me as an equal, an ally, and not as an inferior, or as an obedient, submissive wife. My ideas, I know, are not like those of other people, but I shall never change them.

Une vie! Quelques jours et puis plus rien! On naît, on grandit, on est heureux, on attend, puis on meurt.

In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is king.

They had moved closer to one another to watch the dying moments of the day, this beautiful bright May day.

It was one of those feminine faces whose every line has its own particular charm, and seems to possess a meaning, whose every movement seems to reveal or to conceal something.