C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Mme. Louise Colet

Alas! how enthusiasm decreases as experience increases!

Coquetry is the art of successful deception.

Doubt the man who swears to his devotion.

Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception.

The happiest woman sees not gladness alone reflected from her mirror; its surface will inevitably be sometimes dimmed with sighs.

The laws of decency enforce themselves.

The rubbish of the past.

Untimely conduct is the discord of manners.

When greatness descends from its lofty pedestal, it assumes human dimensions.