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Title: Widger's Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Court Memoirs of France

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Editor: David Widger

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WIDGER'S QUOTATIONS

FROM THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EDITION OF THE HISTORIC COURT MEMOIRS OF FRANCE

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CONTENTS: (in reversed order)

Mar 2003 The Entire Court Memoirs of France Series [CM#63][cm63b10.txt]3900

Mar 2003 The Entire Memoirs of Court of St. Cloud [CM#62][cm62b10.txt]3899

Mar 2003 Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud, v7 [CM#61][cm61b10.txt]3898

Mar 2003 Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud, v6 [CM#60][cm60b10.txt]3897

Mar 2003 Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud, v5 [CM#59][cm59b10.txt]3896

Mar 2003 Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud, v4 [CM#58][cm58b10.txt]3895

Mar 2003 Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud, v3 [CM#57][cm57b10.txt]3894

Mar 2003 Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud, v2 [CM#56][cm56b10.txt]3893

Mar 2003 Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud, v1 [CM#55][cm55b10.txt]3892

Mar 2003 The Entire Marie Antoinette, by Campan [CM#54][cm54b10.txt]3891

Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v7 [CM#53][cm53b10.txt]3890

Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v6 [CM#52][cm52b10.txt]3889

Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v5 [CM#51][cm51b10.txt]3888

Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v4 [CM#50][cm50b10.txt]3887

Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v3 [CM#49][cm49b10.txt]3886

Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v2 [CM#48][cm48b10.txt]3885

Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v1 [CM#47][cm47b10.txt]3884

Mar 2003 The Entire Louis XV./XVI, by Hausset [CM#46][cm46b10.txt]3883

Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XV./XVI, by Hausset, v7 [CM#45][cm45b10.txt]3882

Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XV./XVI, by Hausset, v6 [CM#44][cm44b10.txt]3881

Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XV./XVI, by Hausset, v5 [CM#43][cm43b10.txt]3880

Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XV./XVI, by Hausset, v4 [CM#42][cm42b10.txt]3879

Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XV./XVI, by Hausset, v3 [CM#41][cm41b10.txt]3878

Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XV./XVI, by Hausset, v2 [CM#40][cm40b10.txt]3877

Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XV./XVI, by Hausset, v1 [CM#39][cm39b10.txt]3876

Mar 2003 Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon[CM#38][cm38b10.txt]3875

Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v15 [CM#37][cm37b10.txt]3874

Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v14 [CM#36][cm36b10.txt]3873

Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v13 [CM#35][cm35b10.txt]3872

Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v12 [CM#34][cm34b10.txt]3871

Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v11 [CM#33][cm33b10.txt]3870

Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v10 [CM#32][cm32b10.txt]3869

Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v9 [CM#31][cm31b10.txt]3868

Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v8 [CM#30][cm30b10.txt]3867

Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v7 [CM#29][cm29b10.txt]3866

Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v6 [CM#28][cm28b10.txt]3865

Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v5 [CM#27][cm27b10.txt]3864

Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v4 [CM#26][cm26b10.txt]3863

Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v3 [CM#25][cm25b10.txt]3862

Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v2 [CM#24][cm24b10.txt]3861

Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon, v1 [CM#23][cm23b10.txt]3860

Mar 2003 Entire Memoirs Louis XIV, by Duch d'Orleans[CM#22][cm22b10.txt]3859

Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Duch d'Orleans, v4[CM#21][cm21b10.txt]3858

Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Duch d'Orleans, v3[CM#20][cm20b10.txt]3857

Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Duch d'Orleans, v2[CM#19][cm19b10.txt]3856

Mar 2003 Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Duch d'Orleans, v1[CM#18][cm18b10.txt]3855

Mar 2003 The Entire Memoirs of Madame de Montespan [CM#17][cm17b10.txt]3854

Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, v7 [CM#16][cm16b10.txt]3853

Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, v6 [CM#15][cm15b10.txt]3852

Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, v5 [CM#14][cm14b10.txt]3851

Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, v4 [CM#13][cm13b10.txt]3850

Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, v3 [CM#12][cm12b10.txt]3849

Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, v2 [CM#11][cm11b10.txt]3848

Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, v1 [CM#10][cm10b10.txt]3847

Mar 2003 The Entire Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz [CM#09][cm09b10.txt]3846

Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz, v4 [CM#08][cm08b10.txt]3845

Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz, v3 [CM#07][cm07b10.txt]3844

Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz, v2 [CM#06][cm06b10.txt]3843

Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz, v1 [CM#05][cm05b10.txt]3842

Mar 2003 The Entire Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois [CM#04][cm04b10.txt]3841

Mar 2003 The History of the House of Valois, v3 [CM#03][cm03b10.txt]3840

Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, v2 [CM#02][cm02b10.txt]3839

Mar 2003 The Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, v1 [CM#01][cm01b10.txt]3838

HISTORIC COURT MEMOIRS IN 62 VOLUMES

THE MEMOIRS OF MARGUERITE DE VALOIS

THE MEMOIRS OF MARGUERITE DE VALOIS, v1

[CM#01][cm01b10.txt]3838

Adversity is solitary, while prosperity dwells in a crowd

Comeliness of his person, which at all times pleads powerfully

Everything in the world bore a double aspect

Hearsay liable to be influenced by ignorance or malice

Hopes they (enemies) should hereafter become our friends

I should praise you more had you praised me less

It is the usual frailty of our sex to be fond of flattery

Mistrust is the sure forerunner of hatred

Necessity is said to be the mother of invention

Never approached any other man near enough to know a difference

Not to repose too much confidence in our friends

Prefer truth to embellishment

Rather out of contempt, and because it was good policy

The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day

To embellish my story I have neither leisure nor ability

Troubles might not be lasting

Young girls seldom take much notice of children

THE MEMOIRS OF MARGUERITE DE VALOIS, V2

[CM#02][cm02b10.txt]3839

Envy and malice are self-deceivers

Honours and success are followed by envy

Lovers are not criminal in the estimation of one another

Situated as I was betwixt fear and hope

The pretended reformed religion

There is too much of it for earnest, and not enough for jest

Those who have given offence to hate the offended party

THE HISTORY OF THE HOUSE OF VALOIS, V3

[CM#03][cm03b10.txt]3840

From faith to action the bridge is short

Much is forgiven to a king

Parliament aided the King to expel the Jesuits from France

The record of the war is as the smoke of a furnace

THE ENTIRE MEMOIRS OF MARGUERITE DE VALOIS

[CM#04][cm04b10.txt]3841

Adversity is solitary, while prosperity dwells in a crowd

Comeliness of his person, which at all times pleads powerfully

Envy and malice are self-deceivers

Everything in the world bore a double aspect

From faith to action the bridge is short

Hearsay liable to be influenced by ignorance or malice

Honours and success are followed by envy

Hopes they (enemies) should hereafter become our friends

I should praise you more had you praised me less

It is the usual frailty of our sex to be fond of flattery

Lovers are not criminal in the estimation of one another

Mistrust is the sure forerunner of hatred

Much is forgiven to a king

Necessity is said to be the mother of invention

Never approached any other man near enough to know a difference

Not to repose too much confidence in our friends

Parliament aided the King to expel the Jesuits from France

Prefer truth to embellishment

Rather out of contempt, and because it was good policy

Situated as I was betwixt fear and hope

The pretended reformed religion

The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day

The record of the war is as the smoke of a furnace

There is too much of it for earnest, and not enough for jest

Those who have given offence to hate the offended party

To embellish my story I have neither leisure nor ability

Troubles might not be lasting

Young girls seldom take much notice of children

THE MEMOIRS OF CARDINAL DE RETZ

THE MEMOIRS OF CARDINAL DE RETZ, V1

[CM#05][cm05b10.txt]3842

Assurrance often supplies the room of good sense

By the means of a hundred pistoles down, and vast promises

False glory and false modesty

He knew how to put a good gloss upon his failings

He weighed everything, but fixed on nothing

Is there a greater in the world than heading a party?

Nothing is so subject to delusion as piety

So indiscreet as to boast of his successful amours

Verily believed he was really the man which he affected to be

THE MEMOIRS OF CARDINAL DE RETZ, V2

[CM#06][cm06b10.txt]3843

Always to sacrifice the little affairs to the greater

Always judged of actions by men, and never men by their actions

Arms which are not tempered by laws quickly become anarchy

Associating patience with activity

Blindness that make authority to consist only in force

Bounty, which, though very often secret, had the louder echo

Civil war is one of those complicated diseases

Clergy always great examples of slavish servitude

Confounded the most weighty with the most trifling

Contempt—the most dangerous disease of any State

Dangerous to refuse presents from one's superiors

Distinguished between bad and worse, good and better

Fading flowers, which are fragrant to-day and offensive tomorrow

Fool in adversity and a knave in prosperity

Fools yield only when they cannot help it

Good news should be employed in providing against bad

He had not a long view of what was beyond his reach

His wit was far inferior to his courage

His ideas were infinitely above his capacity

Impossible for her to live without being in love with somebody

Inconvenience of popularity

Kinds of fear only to be removed by higher degrees of terror

Laws without the protection of arms sink into contempt

Maxims showed not great regard for virtue

More ambitious than was consistent with morality

My utmost to save other souls, though I took no care of my own

Need of caution in what we say to our friends

Neither capable of governing nor being governed

Men of irresolution are apt to catch at all overtures

Never had woman more contempt for scruples and ceremonies

Oftener deceived by distrusting than by being overcredulous

One piece of bad news seldom comes singly

Only way to acquire them is to show that we do not value them

Poverty so well became him

Power commonly keeps above ridicule

Pretended to a great deal more wit than came to his share

Queen was adored much more for her troubles than for her merit

Strongest may safely promise to the weaker what he thinks fit

Those who carry more sail than ballast

Thought he always stood in need of apologies

Transitory honour is mere smoke

Treated him as she did her petticoat

Useful man in a faction because of his wonderful complacency

Vanity to love to be esteemed the first author of things

Virtue for a man to confess a fault than not to commit one

We are far more moved at the hearing of old stories

Weakening and changing the laws of the land

Whose vivacity supplied the want of judgment

Wisdom in affairs of moment is nothing without courage

With a design to do good, he did evil

Yet he gave more than he promised

THE MEMOIRS OF CARDINAL DE RETZ, V3

[CM#07][cm07b10.txt]3844

Buckingham had been in love with three Queens

Civil war as not powerful enough to conclude a peace

Insinuation is of more service than that of persuasion

Man that supposed everybody had a back door

Mazarin: embezzling some nine millions of the public money

Passed for the author of events of which I was only the prophet

The subdivision of parties is generally the ruin of all

The wisest fool he ever saw in his life

Who imagine the head of a party to be their master

THE MEMOIRS OF CARDINAL DE RETZ, V4

[CM#08][cm08b10.txt]3845

Help to blind the rest of mankind, and they even become blinder

She had nothing but beauty, which cloys when it comes alone

You must know that, with us Princes, words go for nothing

THE ENTIRE MEMOIRS OF CARDINAL DE RETZ

[CM#09][cm09b10.txt]3846

Always judged of actions by men, and never men by their actions

Always to sacrifice the little affairs to the greater

Arms which are not tempered by laws quickly become anarchy

Associating patience with activity

Assurrance often supplies the room of good sense

Blindness that make authority to consist only in force

Bounty, which, though very often secret, had the louder echo

Buckingham had been in love with three Queens

By the means of a hundred pistoles down, and vast promises

Civil war as not powerful enough to conclude a peace

Civil war is one of those complicated diseases

Clergy always great examples of slavish servitude

Confounded the most weighty with the most trifling

Contempt—the most dangerous disease of any State

Dangerous to refuse presents from one's superiors

Distinguished between bad and worse, good and better

Fading flowers, which are fragrant to-day and offensive tomorrow

False glory and false modesty

Fool in adversity and a knave in prosperity

Fools yield only when they cannot help it

Good news should be employed in providing against bad

He weighed everything, but fixed on nothing

He knew how to put a good gloss upon his failings

He had not a long view of what was beyond his reach

Help to blind the rest of mankind, and they even become blinder

His ideas were infinitely above his capacity

His wit was far inferior to his courage

Impossible for her to live without being in love with somebody

Inconvenience of popularity

Insinuation is of more service than that of persuasion

Is there a greater in the world than heading a party?

Kinds of fear only to be removed by higher degrees of terror

Laws without the protection of arms sink into contempt

Man that supposed everybody had a back door

Maxims showed not great regard for virtue

Mazarin: embezzling some nine millions of the public money

Men of irresolution are apt to catch at all overtures

More ambitious than was consistent with morality

My utmost to save other souls, though I took no care of my own

Need of caution in what we say to our friends

Neither capable of governing nor being governed

Never had woman more contempt for scruples and ceremonies

Nothing is so subject to delusion as piety

Oftener deceived by distrusting than by being overcredulous

One piece of bad news seldom comes singly

Only way to acquire them is to show that we do not value them

Passed for the author of events of which I was only the prophet

Poverty so well became him

Power commonly keeps above ridicule

Pretended to a great deal more wit than came to his share

Queen was adored much more for her troubles than for her merit

She had nothing but beauty, which cloys when it comes alone

So indiscreet as to boast of his successful amours

Strongest may safely promise to the weaker what he thinks fit

The subdivision of parties is generally the ruin of all

The wisest fool he ever saw in his life

Those who carry more sail than ballast

Thought he always stood in need of apologies

Transitory honour is mere smoke

Treated him as she did her petticoat

Useful man in a faction because of his wonderful complacency

Vanity to love to be esteemed the first author of things

Verily believed he was really the man which he affected to be

Virtue for a man to confess a fault than not to commit one

We are far more moved at the hearing of old stories

Weakening and changing the laws of the land

Who imagine the head of a party to be their master

Whose vivacity supplied the want of judgment

Wisdom in affairs of moment is nothing without courage

With a design to do good, he did evil

Yet he gave more than he promised

You must know that, with us Princes, words go for nothing

THE MEMOIRS OF MADAME DE MONTESPAN

THE MEMOIRS OF MADAME DE MONTESPAN, V1

[CM#10][cm10b10.txt]3847

Armed with beauty and sarcasm

Conduct of the sort which cements and revives attachments

Console me on the morrow for what had troubled me to-day

Depicting other figures she really portrays her own

In England a man is the absolute proprietor of his wife

In Rome justice and religion always rank second to politics

Kings only desire to be obeyed when they command

Laws will only be as so many black lines on white paper

Love-affair between Mademoiselle de la Valliere and the King

Madame de Montespan had died of an attack of coquetry

Not show it off was as if one only possessed a kennel

That Which Often It is Best to Ignore

Violent passion had changed to mere friendship

When women rule their reign is always stormy and troublous

Wife: property or of furniture, useful to his house

Won for himself a great name and great wealth by words

THE MEMOIRS OF MADAME DE MONTESPAN, V2

[CM#11][cm11b10.txt]3848

Cannot reconcile themselves to what exists

Domestics included two nurses, a waiting-maid, a physician

Extravagant, without the means to be so

Happy with him as a woman who takes her husband's place can be

Poetry without rhapsody

Present princes and let those be scandalised who will!

Satire without bitterness

Talent without artifice

The pulpit is in want of comedians; they work wonders there

Then comes discouragement; after that, habit

Trust not in kings

What they need is abstinence, prohibitions, thwartings

When one has seen him, everything is excusable

Would you like to be a cardinal? I can manage that

THE MEMOIRS OF MADAME DE MONTESPAN, V3

[CM#12][cm12b10.txt]3849

And then he would go off, laughing in his sleeve

Hate me, but fear me

He was not fool enough for his place

I myself being the first to make merry at it (my plainness)

In the great world, a vague promise is the same as a refusal

It is easier to offend me than to deceive me

Knew how to point the Bastille cannon at the troops of the King

Madame de Sevigne

Time, the irresistible healer

Weeping just as if princes had not got to die like anybody else

Went so far as to shed tears, his most difficult feat of all

When one has been pretty, one imagines that one is still so

THE MEMOIRS OF MADAME DE MONTESPAN, V4

[CM#13][cm13b10.txt]3850

All the death-in-life of a convent

Cuddlings and caresses of decrepitude

In ill-assorted unions, good sense or good nature must intervene

THE MEMOIRS OF MADAME DE MONTESPAN, V5

[CM#14][cm14b10.txt]3851

Grow like a dilapidated house; I am only here to repair myself

He contradicted me about trifles

Intimacy, once broken, cannot be renewed

Jealous without motive, and almost without love

The King replied that "too much was too much"

The monarch suddenly enough rejuvenated his attire

There is an exaggeration in your sorrow

THE MEMOIRS OF MADAME DE MONTESPAN, V6

[CM#15][cm15b10.txt]3852

Always sold at a loss which must be sold at a given moment

Permissible neither to applaud nor to hiss

Respectful without servility

She awaits your replies without interruption

These liars in surplice, in black cassock, or in purple

Wish you had the generosity to show, now and again, less wit

You know, madame, that he generally gets everything he wants

THE MEMOIRS OF MADAME DE MONTESPAN, V7

[CM#16][cm16b10.txt]3853

Ambition puts a thick bandage over the eyes

Says all that he means, and resolutely means all that he can say

Situations in life where we are condemned to see evil done

Women who misconduct themselves are pitiless and severe

THE ENTIRE MEMOIRS OF MADAME DE MONTESPAN

[CM#17][cm17b10.txt]3854

All the death-in-life of a convent

Always sold at a loss which must be sold at a given moment

Ambition puts a thick bandage over the eyes

And then he would go off, laughing in his sleeve

Armed with beauty and sarcasm

Cannot reconcile themselves to what exists

Conduct of the sort which cements and revives attachments

Console me on the morrow for what had troubled me to-day

Cuddlings and caresses of decrepitude

Depicting other figures she really portrays her own

Domestics included two nurses, a waiting-maid, a physician

Extravagant, without the means to be so

Grow like a dilapidated house; I am only here to repair myself

Happy with him as a woman who takes her husband's place can be

Hate me, but fear me

He contradicted me about trifles

He was not fool enough for his place

I myself being the first to make merry at it (my plainness)

In the great world, a vague promise is the same as a refusal

In Rome justice and religion always rank second to politics

In ill-assorted unions, good sense or good nature must intervene

In England a man is the absolute proprietor of his wife

Intimacy, once broken, cannot be renewed

It is easier to offend me than to deceive me

Jealous without motive, and almost without love

Kings only desire to be obeyed when they command

Knew how to point the Bastille cannon at the troops of the King

Laws will only be as so many black lines on white paper

Love-affair between Mademoiselle de la Valliere and the King

Madame de Sevigne

Madame de Montespan had died of an attack of coquetry

Not show it off was as if one only possessed a kennel

Permissible neither to applaud nor to hiss

Poetry without rhapsody

Present princes and let those be scandalised who will!

Respectful without servility

Satire without bitterness

Says all that he means, and resolutely means all that he can say

She awaits your replies without interruption

Situations in life where we are condemned to see evil done

Talent without artifice

That Which Often It is Best to Ignore

The King replied that "too much was too much"

The monarch suddenly enough rejuvenated his attire

The pulpit is in want of comedians; they work wonders there

Then comes discouragement; after that, habit

There is an exaggeration in your sorrow

These liars in surplice, in black cassock, or in purple

Time, the irresistible healer

Trust not in kings

Violent passion had changed to mere friendship

Weeping just as if princes had not got to die like anybody else

Went so far as to shed tears, his most difficult feat of all

What they need is abstinence, prohibitions, thwartings

When women rule their reign is always stormy and troublous

When one has seen him, everything is excusable

When one has been pretty, one imagines that one is still so

Wife: property or of furniture, useful to his house

Wish you had the generosity to show, now and again, less wit

Women who misconduct themselves are pitiless and severe

Won for himself a great name and great wealth by words

Would you like to be a cardinal? I can manage that

You know, madame, that he generally gets everything he wants

MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY DUCHESSE D'ORLEANS

MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY DUCH D'ORLEANS, V1

[CM#18][cm18b10.txt]3855

A pious Capuchin explained her dream to her

Art of satisfying people even while he reproved their requests

Asked the King a hundred questions, which is not the fashion

Because the Queen has only the rinsings of the glass

Duplicity passes for wit, and frankness is looked upon as folly

Even doubt whether he believes in the existence of a God

Follies and superstitions as the rosaries and other things

Formerly the custom to swear horridly on all occasions

Great filthiness in the interior of their houses

Great things originated from the most insignificant trifles

He always slept in the Queen's bed

He had good natural wit, but was extremely ignorant

He was a good sort of man, notwithstanding his weaknesses

Her teeth were very ugly, being black and broken (Queen)

I am unquestionably very ugly

I formed a religion of my own

I have seldom been at a loss for something to laugh at

I never take medicine but on urgent occasions

It was not permitted to argue with him

Jewels and decoration attract attention (to the ugly)

Louis XIV. scarcely knew how to read and write

Made his mistresses treat her with all becoming respect

My husband proposed separate beds

No man more ignorant of religion than the King was

Nobility becoming poor could not afford to buy the high offices

Not lawful to investigate in matters of religion

Robes battantes for the purpose of concealing her pregnancy

Seeing myself look as ugly as I really am (in a mirror)

So great a fear of hell had been instilled into the King

Soon tired of war, and wishing to return home (Louis XIV)

The old woman (Madame Maintenon)

To die is the least event of my life (Maintenon)

To tell the truth, I was never very fond of having children

You are a King; you weep, and yet I go

You never look in a mirror when you pass it

MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY DUCH D'ORLEANS, V2

[CM#19][cm19b10.txt]3856

Always has a fictitious malady in reserve

I had a mind, he said, to commit one sin, but not two

I wished the husband not to be informed of it

Old Maintenon

Provided they are talked of, they are satisfied

That what he called love was mere debauchery

MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY DUCH D'ORLEANS, V3

[CM#20][cm20b10.txt]3857

Bad company spoils good manners

Duc de Grammont, then Ambassador, played the Confessor

Frequent and excessive bathing have undermined her health

It is an unfortunate thing for a man not to know himself

Like will to like

MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY DUCH D'ORLEANS, V4

[CM#21][cm21b10.txt]3858

But all shame is extinct in France

Exclaimed so long against high head-dresses

Honour grows again as well as hair

I thought I should win it, and so I lost it

If I should die, shall I not have lived long enough?

Only your illegitimate daughter

Original manuscripts of the Memoirs of Cardinal Retz

She never could be agreeable to women

Since becoming Queen she had not had a day of real happiness

Stout, healthy girl of nineteen had no other sins to confess

Subject to frequent fits of abstraction

Throw his priest into the Necker

ENTIRE MEMOIRS LOUIS XIV, BY DUCH D'ORLEANS

[CM#22][cm22b10.txt]3859

A pious Capuchin explained her dream to her

Always has a fictitious malady in reserve

Art of satisfying people even while he reproved their requests

Asked the King a hundred questions, which is not the fashion

Bad company spoils good manners

Because the Queen has only the rinsings of the glass

But all shame is extinct in France

Duc de Grammont, then Ambassador, played the Confessor

Duplicity passes for wit, and frankness is looked upon as folly

Even doubt whether he believes in the existence of a God

Exclaimed so long against high head-dresses

Follies and superstitions as the rosaries and other things

Formerly the custom to swear horridly on all occasions

Frequent and excessive bathing have undermined her health

Great filthiness in the interior of their houses

Great things originated from the most insignificant trifles

He had good natural wit, but was extremely ignorant

He always slept in the Queen's bed

He was a good sort of man, notwithstanding his weaknesses

Her teeth were very ugly, being black and broken (Queen)

Honour grows again as well as hair

I thought I should win it, and so I lost it

I never take medicine but on urgent occasions

I wished the husband not to be informed of it

I have seldom been at a loss for something to laugh at

I am unquestionably very ugly

I had a mind, he said, to commit one sin, but not two

I formed a religion of my own

If I should die, shall I not have lived long enough?

It is an unfortunate thing for a man not to know himself

It was not permitted to argue with him

Jewels and decoration attract attention (to the ugly)

Like will to like

Louis XIV. scarcely knew how to read and write

Made his mistresses treat her with all becoming respect

My husband proposed separate beds

No man more ignorant of religion than the King was

Nobility becoming poor could not afford to buy the high offices

Not lawful to investigate in matters of religion

Old Maintenon

Only your illegitimate daughter

Original manuscripts of the Memoirs of Cardinal Retz

Provided they are talked of, they are satisfied

Robes battantes for the purpose of concealing her pregnancy

Seeing myself look as ugly as I really am (in a mirror)

She never could be agreeable to women

Since becoming Queen she had not had a day of real happiness

So great a fear of hell had been instilled into the King

Soon tired of war, and wishing to return home (Louis XIV)

Stout, healthy girl of nineteen had no other sins to confess

Subject to frequent fits of abstraction

That what he called love was mere debauchery

The old woman (Madame Maintenon)

Throw his priest into the Necker

To tell the truth, I was never very fond of having children

To die is the least event of my life (Maintenon)

You never look in a mirror when you pass it

You are a King; you weep, and yet I go

MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY THE DUC de SAINT-SIMON

MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY SAINT-SIMON, V1

[CM#23][cm23b10.txt]3860

Aptitude did not come up to my desire

Believed that to undertake and succeed were only the same things

Exceeded all that was promised of her, and all that I had hoped

He had pleased (the King) by his drugs

King was being wheeled in his easy chair in the gardens

Less easily forget the injuries we inflict than those received

Make religion a little more palpable

Manifesto of a man who disgorges his bile

Mightily tired of masters and books

More facility I have as King to gratify myself

My wife went to bed, and received a crowd of visitors

People who had only sores to share

Persuaded themselves they understood each other

Received all the Court in her bed

Saw peace desired were they less inclined to listen to terms

Spark of ambition would have destroyed all his edifice

Sulpicians

The safest place on the Continent

Wise and disdainful silence is difficult to keep under reverses

With him one's life was safe

MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY SAINT-SIMON, V2

[CM#24][cm24b10.txt]3861

But with a crawling baseness equal to her previous audacity

He limped audaciously

Height to which her insignificance had risen

His death, so happy for him and so sad for his friends

His habits were publicly known to be those of the Greeks

In order to say something cutting to you, says it to himself

Madame de Maintenon in returning young and poor from America

No means, therefore, of being wise among so many fools

Omissions must be repaired as soon as they are perceived

Pope excommunicated those who read the book or kept it

She lose her head, and her accomplice to be broken on the wheel

The clergy, to whom envy is not unfamiliar

The porter and the soldier were arrested and tortured

Whitehall, the largest and ugliest palace in Europe

World; so unreasoning, and so little in accord with itself

MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY SAINT-SIMON, V3

[CM#25][cm25b10.txt]3862

A King's son, a King's father, and never a King

Capacity was small, and yet he believed he knew everything

He was accused of putting on an imperceptible touch of rouge

Monseigneur, who had been out wolf-hunting

Never been able to bend her to a more human way of life

Spoke only about as much as three or four women

Supported by unanswerable reasons that did not convince

The most horrible sights have often ridiculous contrasts

The nothingness of what the world calls great destinies

Whatever course I adopt many people will condemn me

MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY SAINT-SIMON, V4

[CM#26][cm26b10.txt]3863

His great piety contributed to weaken his mind

Of a politeness that was unendurable

Reproaches rarely succeed in love

Spoil all by asking too much

Teacher lost little, because he had little to lose

There was no end to the outrageous civilities of M. de Coislin

MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY SAINT-SIMON, V5

[CM#27][cm27b10.txt]3864

Imagining themselves everywhere in marvellous danger of capture

Oh, my lord! how many virtues you make me detest

Polite when necessary, but insolent when he dared

Promotion was granted according to length of service

MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY SAINT-SIMON, V6

[CM#28][cm28b10.txt]3865

Compelled to pay, who would have preferred giving voluntarily

Conjugal impatience of the Duc de Bourgogne

Desmarets no longer knew of what wood to make a crutch

He was so good that I sometimes reproached him for it

Indiscreet and tyrannical charity

Jesuits: all means were good that furthered his designs

Said that if they were good, they were sure to be hated

MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY SAINT-SIMON, V7

[CM#29][cm29b10.txt]3866

Found it easier to fly into a rage than to reply

MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY SAINT-SIMON, V8

[CM#30][cm30b10.txt]3867

A king is made for his subjects, and not the subjects for him

A lingering fear lest the sick man should recover

Danger of inducing hypocrisy by placing devotion too high

For want of better support I sustained myself with courage

Interests of all interested painted on their faces

Never was a man so ready with tears, so backward with grief

Suspicion of a goitre, which did not ill become her

The shortness of each day was his only sorrow

MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY SAINT-SIMON, V9

[CM#31][cm31b10.txt]3868

Admit our ignorance, and not to give fictions and inventions

Arranged his affairs that he died without money

For penance: "we must make our servants fast"

The argument of interest is the best of all with monks

MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY SAINT-SIMON, V10

[CM#32][cm32b10.txt]3869

Depopulated a quarter of the realm

He liked nobody to be in any way superior to him

He was born bored; he was so accustomed to live out of himself

He was scarcely taught how to read or write

It is a sign that I have touched the sore point

Pope not been ashamed to extol the Saint-Bartholomew

Revocation of the edict of Nantes

Seeing him eat olives with a fork!

Touched, but like a man who does not wish to seem so

Unreasonable love of admiration, was his ruin

Who counted others only as they stood in relation to himself

MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY SAINT-SIMON, V11

[CM#33][cm33b10.txt]3870

Scarcely any history has been written at first hand

MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY SAINT-SIMON, V12

[CM#34][cm34b10.txt]3871

He was often firm in promises

MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY SAINT-SIMON, V13

[CM#35][cm35b10.txt]3872

A cardinal may be poisoned, stabbed, got rid of altogether

Enriched one at the expense of the other

Few would be enriched at the expense of the many

I abhorred to gain at the expense of others

Juggle, which put the wealth of Peter into the pockets of Paul

Not allowing ecclesiastics to meddle with public affairs

People with difficulty believe what they have seen

Rome must be infallible, or she is nothing

MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY SAINT-SIMON, V14

[CM#36][cm36b10.txt]3873

Countries of the Inquisition, where science is a crime

Ignorance and superstition the first of virtues

MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY SAINT-SIMON, V15

[CM#37][cm37b10.txt]3874

A good friend when a friend at all, which was rare

Artagnan, captain of the grey musketeers

Death came to laugh at him for the sweating labour he had taken

From bad to worse was easy

Others were not allowed to dream as he had lived

We die as we have lived, and 'tis rare it happens otherwise

ENTIRE MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY SAINT-SIMON

[CM#38][cm38b10.txt]3875

A cardinal may be poisoned, stabbed, got rid of altogether

A good friend when a friend at all, which was rare

A King's son, a King's father, and never a King

A lingering fear lest the sick man should recover

A king is made for his subjects, and not the subjects for him

Admit our ignorance, and not to give fictions and inventions

Aptitude did not come up to my desire

Arranged his affairs that he died without money

Artagnan, captain of the grey musketeers

Believed that to undertake and succeed were only the same things

But with a crawling baseness equal to her previous audacity

Capacity was small, and yet he believed he knew everything

Compelled to pay, who would have preferred giving voluntarily

Conjugal impatience of the Duc de Bourgogne

Countries of the Inquisition, where science is a crime

Danger of inducing hypocrisy by placing devotion too high

Death came to laugh at him for the sweating labour he had taken

Depopulated a quarter of the realm

Desmarets no longer knew of what wood to make a crutch

Enriched one at the expense of the other

Exceeded all that was promised of her, and all that I had hoped

Few would be enriched at the expense of the many

For penance: "we must make our servants fast"

For want of better support I sustained myself with courage

Found it easier to fly into a rage than to reply

From bad to worse was easy

He had pleased (the King) by his drugs

He limped audaciously

He was often firm in promises

He was so good that I sometimes reproached him for it

He was born bored; he was so accustomed to live out of himself

He liked nobody to be in any way superior to him

He was scarcely taught how to read or write

He was accused of putting on an imperceptible touch of rouge

Height to which her insignificance had risen

His death, so happy for him and so sad for his friends

His habits were publicly known to be those of the Greeks

His great piety contributed to weaken his mind

I abhorred to gain at the expense of others

Ignorance and superstition the first of virtues

Imagining themselves everywhere in marvellous danger of capture

In order to say something cutting to you, says it to himself

Indiscreet and tyrannical charity

Interests of all interested painted on their faces

It is a sign that I have touched the sore point

Jesuits: all means were good that furthered his designs

Juggle, which put the wealth of Peter into the pockets of Paul

King was being wheeled in his easy chair in the gardens

Less easily forget the injuries we inflict than those received

Madame de Maintenon in returning young and poor from America

Make religion a little more palpable

Manifesto of a man who disgorges his bile

Mightily tired of masters and books

Monseigneur, who had been out wolf-hunting

More facility I have as King to gratify myself

My wife went to bed, and received a crowd of visitors

Never been able to bend her to a more human way of life

Never was a man so ready with tears, so backward with grief

No means, therefore, of being wise among so many fools

Not allowing ecclesiastics to meddle with public affairs

Of a politeness that was unendurable

Oh, my lord! how many virtues you make me detest

Omissions must be repaired as soon as they are perceived

Others were not allowed to dream as he had lived

People who had only sores to share

People with difficulty believe what they have seen

Persuaded themselves they understood each other

Polite when necessary, but insolent when he dared

Pope excommunicated those who read the book or kept it

Pope not been ashamed to extol the Saint-Bartholomew

Promotion was granted according to length of service

Received all the Court in her bed

Reproaches rarely succeed in love

Revocation of the edict of Nantes

Rome must be infallible, or she is nothing

Said that if they were good, they were sure to be hated

Saw peace desired were they less inclined to listen to terms

Scarcely any history has been written at first hand

Seeing him eat olives with a fork!

She lose her head, and her accomplice to be broken on the wheel

Spark of ambition would have destroyed all his edifice

Spoil all by asking too much

Spoke only about as much as three or four women

Sulpicians

Supported by unanswerable reasons that did not convince

Suspicion of a goitre, which did not ill become her

Teacher lost little, because he had little to lose

The clergy, to whom envy is not unfamiliar

The porter and the soldier were arrested and tortured

The shortness of each day was his only sorrow

The most horrible sights have often ridiculous contrasts

The argument of interest is the best of all with monks

The nothingness of what the world calls great destinies

The safest place on the Continent

There was no end to the outrageous civilities of M. de Coislin

Touched, but like a man who does not wish to seem so

Unreasonable love of admiration, was his ruin

We die as we have lived, and 'tis rare it happens otherwise

Whatever course I adopt many people will condemn me

Whitehall, the largest and ugliest palace in Europe

Who counted others only as they stood in relation to himself

Wise and disdainful silence is difficult to keep under reverses

With him one's life was safe

World; so unreasoning, and so little in accord with itself

MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XV./XVI, BY HAUSSET and PRINCESS LAMBALLE

MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XV./XVI, BY HAUSSET, V1

[CM#39][cm39b10.txt]3876

A liar ought to have a good memory

Because he is fat, he is thought dull and heavy

Danger of confiding the administration to noblemen

Do not repulse him in his fond moments

He who quits the field loses it

Money the universal lever, and you are in want of it

Offering you the spectacle of my miseries

Sentiment is more prompt, and inspires me with fear

Sworn that she had thought of nothing but you all her life

To despise money, is to despise happiness, liberty…

We look upon you as a cat, or a dog, and go on talking

When the only security of a King rests upon his troops

You tell me bad news: having packed up, I had rather go

MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XV./XVI, BY HAUSSET, V2

[CM#40][cm40b10.txt]3877

Air of science calculated to deceive the vulgar

Bad habit of talking very indiscreetly before others

Clouds—you may see what you please in them

Dared to say to me, so he writes

Dead always in fault, and cannot be put out of sight too soon

French people do not do things by halves

Fresh proof of the intrigues of the Jesuits

How difficult it is to do good

I dared not touch that string

Infinite astonishment at his sharing the common destiny

Madame made the Treaty of Sienna

Pension is granted on condition that his poems are never printed

Pleasure of making a great noise at little expense

Sending astronomers to Mexico and Peru, to measure the earth

She always says the right thing in the right place

She drives quick and will certainly be overturned on the road

MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XV./XVI, BY HAUSSET, V3

[CM#41][cm41b10.txt]3878

Embonpoint of the French Princesses

Few individuals except Princesses do with parade and publicity

Frailty in the ambitious, through which the artful can act

Laughed at qualities she could not comprehend

Mind well stored against human casualties

Policy, in sovereigns, is paramount to every other

Quiet work of ruin by whispers and detraction

Ridicule, than which no weapon is more false or deadly

Salique Laws

Thank Heaven, I am out of harness

Traducing virtues the slanderers never possessed

Underrated what she could not imitate

Where the knout is the logician

MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XV./XVI, BY HAUSSET, V4

[CM#42][cm42b10.txt]3879

Fatal error of conscious rectitude

Feel themselves injured by the favour shown to others

Listeners never hear any good of themselves

Only retire to make room for another race

Regardlessness of appearances

MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XV./XVI, BY HAUSSET, V5

[CM#43][cm43b10.txt]3880

Beaumarchais sent arms to the Americans

Educate his children as quietists in matters of religion

It is an ill wind that blows no one any good

Judge of men by the company they keep

Les culottes—what do you call them?' 'Small clothes'

My little English protegee

No phrase becomes a proverb until after a century's experience

We say "inexpressibles"

Wish art to eclipse nature

MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XV./XVI, BY HAUSSET, V6

[CM#44][cm44b10.txt]3881

And scarcely a woman; for your answers are very short

Can make a Duchess a beggar, but cannot make a beggar a Duchess

Canvassing for a majority to set up D'Orleans

Clergy enjoyed one-third the national revenues

Declaring the Duke of Orleans the constitutional King

Foolishly occupying themselves with petty matters

Many an aching heart rides in a carriage

Over-caution may produce evils almost equal to carelessness

Panegyric of the great Edmund Burke upon Marie Antoinette

People in independence are only the puppets of demagogues

Revolution not as the Americans, founded on grievances

Suppression of all superfluous religious institutions

The King remained as if paralysed and stupefied

These expounders—or confounders—of codes

To be accused was to incur instant death

Who confound logic with their wishes

MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XV./XVI, BY HAUSSET, V7

[CM#45][cm45b10.txt]3882

Honesty is to be trusted before genius

More dangerous to attack the habits of men than their religion

THE ENTIRE LOUIS XV./XVI, BY HAUSSET

[CM#46][cm46b10.txt]3883

A liar ought to have a good memory

Air of science calculated to deceive the vulgar

And scarcely a woman; for your answers are very short

Bad habit of talking very indiscreetly before others

Beaumarchais sent arms to the Americans

Because he is fat, he is thought dull and heavy

Can make a Duchess a beggar, but cannot make a beggar a Duchess

Canvassing for a majority to set up D'Orleans

Clergy enjoyed one-third the national revenues

Clouds—you may see what you please in them

Danger of confiding the administration to noblemen

Dared to say to me, so he writes

Dead always in fault, and cannot be put out of sight too soon

Declaring the Duke of Orleans the constitutional King

Do not repulse him in his fond moments

Educate his children as quietists in matters of religion

Embonpoint of the French Princesses

Fatal error of conscious rectitude

Feel themselves injured by the favour shown to others

Few individuals except Princesses do with parade and publicity

Foolishly occupying themselves with petty matters

Frailty in the ambitious, through which the artful can act

French people do not do things by halves

Fresh proof of the intrigues of the Jesuits

He who quits the field loses it

Honesty is to be trusted before genius

How difficult it is to do good

I dared not touch that string

Infinite astonishment at his sharing the common destiny

It is an ill wind that blows no one any good

Judge of men by the company they keep

Laughed at qualities she could not comprehend

Les culottes—what do you call them?' 'Small clothes'

Listeners never hear any good of themselves

Madame made the Treaty of Sienna

Many an aching heart rides in a carriage

Mind well stored against human casualties

Money the universal lever, and you are in want of it

More dangerous to attack the habits of men than their religion

My little English protegee

No phrase becomes a proverb until after a century's experience

Offering you the spectacle of my miseries

Only retire to make room for another race

Over-caution may produce evils almost equal to carelessness

Panegyric of the great Edmund Burke upon Marie Antoinette

Pension is granted on condition that his poems are never printed

People in independence are only the puppets of demagogues

Pleasure of making a great noise at little expense

Policy, in sovereigns, is paramount to every other

Quiet work of ruin by whispers and detraction

Regardlessness of appearances

Revolution not as the Americans, founded on grievances

Ridicule, than which no weapon is more false or deadly

Salique Laws

Sending astronomers to Mexico and Peru, to measure the earth

Sentiment is more prompt, and inspires me with fear

She always says the right thing in the right place

She drives quick and will certainly be overturned on the road

Suppression of all superfluous religious institutions

Sworn that she had thought of nothing but you all her life

Thank Heaven, I am out of harness

The King remained as if paralysed and stupefied

These expounders—or confounders—of codes

To be accused was to incur instant death

To despise money, is to despise happiness, liberty…

Traducing virtues the slanderers never possessed

Underrated what she could not imitate

We look upon you as a cat, or a dog, and go on talking

We say "inexpressibles"

When the only security of a King rests upon his troops

Where the knout is the logician

Who confound logic with their wishes

Wish art to eclipse nature

You tell me bad news: having packed up, I had rather go

MEMOIRS OF MARIE ANTOINETTE, BY MADAME CAMPAN

MEMOIRS OF MARIE ANTOINETTE, BY CAMPAN, V1

[CM#47][cm47b10.txt]3884

Ah, Madame, we have all been killed in our masters' service!

Brought me her daughter Hortense de Beauharnais

Condescension which renders approbation more offensive

Difference between brilliant theories and the simplest practice

Extreme simplicity was the Queens first and only real mistake

I hate all that savours of fanaticism

If ever I establish a republic of women….

No ears that will discover when she (The Princess) is out of tune

Observe the least pretension on account of the rank or fortune

On domestic management depends the preservation of their fortune

Spirit of party can degrade the character of a nation

Tastes may change

The anti-Austrian party, discontented and vindictive

They say you live very poorly here, Moliere

True nobility, gentlemen, consists in giving proofs of it

We must have obedience, and no reasoning

What do young women stand in need of?—Mothers!

"Would be a pity," she said, "to stop when so fairly on the road"

Your swords have rusted in their scabbards

MEMOIRS OF MARIE ANTOINETTE, BY CAMPAN, V2

[CM#48][cm48b10.txt]3885

Carried the idea of the prerogative of rank to a high pitch

Common and blamable practice of indulgence

Dignified tone which alone secures the respect due to power

Etiquette still existed at Court, dignity alone was wanting

Happiness does not dwell in palaces

His seraglio in the Parc-aux-Cerfs

I love the conveniences of life too well

Leave me in peace; be assured that I can put no heir in danger

Most intriguing little Carmelite in the kingdom

Princes thus accustomed to be treated as divinities

Princess at 12 years was not mistress of the whole alphabet

Taken pains only to render himself beloved by his pupil

The Jesuits were suppressed

The King delighted to manage the most disgraceful points

To be formally mistress, a husband had to be found

Ventured to give such rash advice: inoculation

Was but one brilliant action that she could perform

MEMOIRS OF MARIE ANTOINETTE, BY CAMPAN, V3

[CM#49][cm49b10.txt]3886

Elegant entertainments were given to Doctor Franklin

Fashion of wearing a black coat without being in mourning

Favourite of a queen is not, in France, a happy one

History of the man with the iron mask

Of course I shall be either hissed or applauded.

She often carried her economy to a degree of parsimony

Shocking to find so little a man in the son of the Marechal

Simplicity of the Queen's toilet began to be strongly censured

The charge of extravagance

The three ministers, more ambitious than amorous

Well, this is royally ill played!

While the Queen was blamed, she was blindly imitated

MEMOIRS OF MARIE ANTOINETTE, BY CAMPAN, V4

[CM#50][cm50b10.txt]3887

Customs are nearly equal to laws

Displaying her acquirements with rather too much confidence

I do not like these rhapsodies

Indulge in the pleasure of vice and assume the credit of virtue

No accounting for the caprices of a woman

None but little minds dreaded little books

Shun all kinds of confidence

The author (Beaumarchais) was sent to prison soon afterwards

Those muskets were immediately embarked and sold to the Americans

Young Prince suffered from the rickets

MEMOIRS OF MARIE ANTOINETTE, BY CAMPAN, V5

[CM#51][cm51b10.txt]3888

Advised the King not to separate himself from his army

Grand-Dieu, mamma! will it be yesterday over again?

Mirabeau forgot that it was more easy to do harm than good

Never shall a drop of French blood be shed by my order

Saw no other advantage in it than that of saving her own life

That air of truth which always carries conviction

When kings become prisoners they are very near death

Whispered in his mother's ear, "Was that right?"

MEMOIRS OF MARIE ANTOINETTE, BY CAMPAN, V6

[CM#52][cm52b10.txt]3889

A man born solely to contradict

Alas! her griefs double mine!

He is afraid to command

His ruin was resolved on; they passed to the order of the day

King (gave) the fatal order to the Swiss to cease firing

La Fayette to rescue the royal family and convey them to Rouen

Prevent disorder from organising itself

The emigrant party have their intrigues and schemes

There is not one real patriot among all this infamous horde

Those who did it should not pretend to wish to remedy it

MEMOIRS OF MARIE ANTOINETTE, BY CAMPAN, V7

[CM#53][cm53b10.txt]3890

Allowed her candles and as much firewood as she wanted

Better to die than to implicate anybody

Duc d'Orleans, when called on to give his vote for death of King

Formed rather to endure calamity with patience than to contend

How can I have any regret when I partake your misfortunes

Louis Philippe, the usurper of the inheritance of her family

My father fortunately found a library which amused him

No one is more dangerous than a man clothed with recent authority

Rabble, always ready to insult genius, virtue, and misfortune

So many crimes perpetrated under that name (liberty)

Subjecting the vanquished to be tried by the conquerors

THE ENTIRE MARIE ANTOINETTE, BY CAMPAN

[CM#54][cm54b10.txt]3891

A man born solely to contradict

Advised the King not to separate himself from his army

Ah, Madame, we have all been killed in our masters' service!

Alas! her griefs double mine!

Allowed her candles and as much firewood as she wanted

Better to die than to implicate anybody

Brought me her daughter Hortense de Beauharnais

Carried the idea of the prerogative of rank to a high pitch

Common and blamable practice of indulgence

Condescension which renders approbation more offensive

Customs are nearly equal to laws

Difference between brilliant theories and the simplest practice

Dignified tone which alone secures the respect due to power

Displaying her acquirements with rather too much confidence

Duc d'Orleans, when called on to give his vote for death of King

Elegant entertainments were given to Doctor Franklin

Etiquette still existed at Court, dignity alone was wanting

Extreme simplicity was the Queens first and only real mistake

Fashion of wearing a black coat without being in mourning

Favourite of a queen is not, in France, a happy one

Formed rather to endure calamity with patience than to contend

Grand-Dieu, mamma! will it be yesterday over again?

Happiness does not dwell in palaces

He is afraid to command

His ruin was resolved on; they passed to the order of the day

His seraglio in the Parc-aux-Cerfs

History of the man with the iron mask

How can I have any regret when I partake your misfortunes

I hate all that savours of fanaticism

I do not like these rhapsodies

I love the conveniences of life too well

If ever I establish a republic of women….

Indulge in the pleasure of vice and assume the credit of virtue

King (gave) the fatal order to the Swiss to cease firing

La Fayette to rescue the royal family and convey them to Rouen

Leave me in peace; be assured that I can put no heir in danger

Louis Philippe, the usurper of the inheritance of her family

Mirabeau forgot that it was more easy to do harm than good

Most intriguing little Carmelite in the kingdom

My father fortunately found a library which amused him

Never shall a drop of French blood be shed by my order

No one is more dangerous than a man clothed with recent authority

No accounting for the caprices of a woman

No ears that will discover when she (The Princess) is out of tune

None but little minds dreaded little books

Observe the least pretension on account of the rank or fortune

Of course I shall be either hissed or applauded.

On domestic management depends the preservation of their fortune

Prevent disorder from organising itself

Princes thus accustomed to be treated as divinities

Princess at 12 years was not mistress of the whole alphabet

Rabble, always ready to insult genius, virtue, and misfortune

Saw no other advantage in it than that of saving her own life

She often carried her economy to a degree of parsimony

Shocking to find so little a man in the son of the Marechal

Shun all kinds of confidence

Simplicity of the Queen's toilet began to be strongly censured

So many crimes perpetrated under that name (liberty)

Spirit of party can degrade the character of a nation

Subjecting the vanquished to be tried by the conquerors

Taken pains only to render himself beloved by his pupil

Tastes may change

That air of truth which always carries conviction

The author (Beaumarchais) was sent to prison soon afterwards

The Jesuits were suppressed

The three ministers, more ambitious than amorous

The charge of extravagance

The emigrant party have their intrigues and schemes

The King delighted to manage the most disgraceful points

The anti-Austrian party, discontented and vindictive

There is not one real patriot among all this infamous horde

They say you live very poorly here, Moliere

Those muskets were immediately embarked and sold to the Americans

Those who did it should not pretend to wish to remedy it

To be formally mistress, a husband had to be found

True nobility, gentlemen, consists in giving proofs of it

Ventured to give such rash advice: inoculation

Was but one brilliant action that she could perform

We must have obedience, and no reasoning

Well, this is royally ill played!

What do young women stand in need of?—Mothers!

When kings become prisoners they are very near death

While the Queen was blamed, she was blindly imitated

Whispered in his mother's ear, "Was that right?"

"Would be a pity," she said, "to stop when so fairly on the road"

Young Prince suffered from the rickets

Your swords have rusted in their scabbards

MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF ST. CLOUD BY A GENTLEMAN AT PARIS

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Easy to give places to men to whom Nature has refused parts

Indifference of the French people to all religion

Prepared to become your victim, but not your accomplice

Were my generals as great fools as some of my Ministers

Which crime in power has interest to render impenetrable

MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF ST. CLOUD, V2

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Bestowing on the Almighty the passions of mortals

Bow to their charlatanism as if it was sublimity

Cannot be expressed, and if expressed, would not be believed

Feeling, however, the want of consolation in their misfortunes

Future effects dreaded from its past enormities

God is only the invention of fear

Gold, changes black to white, guilt to innocence

Hail their sophistry and imposture as inspiration

Invention of new tortures and improved racks

Labour as much as possible in the dark

Misfortunes and proscription would not only inspire courage

My means were the boundaries of my wants

Not suspected of any vices, but all his virtues are negative

Nothing was decided, though nothing was refused

Now that she is old (as is generally the case), turned devotee

Prelate on whom Bonaparte intends to confer the Roman tiara

Saints supplied her with a finger, a toe, or some other parts

Step is but short from superstition to infidelity

Suspicion and tyranny are inseparable companions

Two hundred and twenty thousand prostitute licenses

Usurped the easy direction of ignorance

Would cease to rule the day he became just

MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF ST. CLOUD, V3

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As confident and obstinate as ignorant

Bonaparte and his wife go now every morning to hear Mass

Bourrienne

Distinguished for their piety or rewarded for their flattery

Extravagances of a head filled with paradoxes

Forced military men to kneel before priests

Indifference about futurity

Military diplomacy

More vain than ambitious

Nature has destined him to obey, and not to govern

One of the negative accomplices of the criminal

Promises of impostors or fools to delude the ignorant

Salaries as the men, under the name of washerwomen

This is the age of upstarts," said Talleyrand

Thought at least extraordinary, even by our friends

MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF ST. CLOUD, V4

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All his creditors, denounced and executed

All priests are to be proscribed as criminals

How much people talk about what they do not comprehend

Thought himself eloquent when only insolent or impertinent

MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF ST. CLOUD, V5

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Hero of great ambition and small capacity: La Fayette

Marble lives longer than man

Satisfying himself with keeping three mistresses only

Under the notion of being frank, are rude

Want is the parent of industry

With us, unfortunately, suspicion is the same as conviction

MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF ST. CLOUD, V6

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A stranger to remorse and repentance, as well as to honour

Accused of fanaticism, because she refused to cohabit with him

As everywhere else, supported injustice by violence

Bonaparte dreads more the liberty of the Press than all other

Chevalier of the Guillotine: Toureaux

Country where power forces the law to lie dormant

Encounter with dignity and self-command unbecoming provocations

Error to admit any neutrality at all

Expeditious justice, as it is called here

French Revolution was fostered by robbery and murder

He was too honest to judge soundly and to act rightly

Her present Serene Idiot, as she styles the Prince Borghese

If Bonaparte is fond of flattery—pays for it like a real Emperor

Its pretensions rose in proportion to the condescensions

Jealous of his wife as a lover of his mistress

Justice is invoked in vain when the criminal is powerful

May change his habitations six times in the month—yet be home

Men and women, old men and children are no more

My maid always sleeps with me when my husband is absent

Napoleon invasion of States of the American Commonwealth

Not only portable guillotines, but portable Jacobin clubs

Procure him after a useless life, a glorious death

Should our system of cringing continue progressively

Sold cats' meat and tripe in the streets of Rome

Sufferings of individuals, he said, are nothing

Suspicion is evidence

United States will be exposed to Napoleon's outrages

Who complains is shot as a conspirator

MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF ST. CLOUD, V7

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Complacency which may be felt, but ought never to be published

General who is too fond of his life ought never to enter a camp

Generals of Cabinets are often indifferent captains in the field

How many reputations are gained by an impudent assurance

Irresolution and weakness in a commander operate the same

Love of life increase in proportion as its real value diminishes

Opinion almost constitutes half the strength of armies

Presumptuous charlatan

Pretensions or passions of upstart vanity

Pride of an insupportable and outrageous ambition

Prudence without weakness, and with firmness without obstinacy

They ought to be just before they are generous

They will create some quarrel to destroy you

Vices or virtues of all civilized nations are relatively the same

We are tired of everything, even of our existence

THE ENTIRE MEMOIRS OF COURT OF ST. CLOUD

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A stranger to remorse and repentance, as well as to honour

Accused of fanaticism, because she refused to cohabit with him

All his creditors, denounced and executed

All priests are to be proscribed as criminals

As everywhere else, supported injustice by violence

As confident and obstinate as ignorant

Bestowing on the Almighty the passions of mortals

Bonaparte and his wife go now every morning to hear Mass

Bonaparte dreads more the liberty of the Press than all other

Bourrienne

Bow to their charlatanism as if it was sublimity

Cannot be expressed, and if expressed, would not be believed

Chevalier of the Guillotine: Toureaux

Complacency which may be felt, but ought never to be published

Country where power forces the law to lie dormant

Distinguished for their piety or rewarded for their flattery

Easy to give places to men to whom Nature has refused parts

Encounter with dignity and self_command unbecoming provocations

Error to admit any neutrality at all

Expeditious justice, as it is called here

Extravagances of a head filled with paradoxes

Feeling, however, the want of consolation in their misfortunes

Forced military men to kneel before priests

French Revolution was fostered by robbery and murder

Future effects dreaded from its past enormities

General who is too fond of his life ought never to enter a camp

Generals of Cabinets are often indifferent captains in the field

God is only the invention of fear

Gold, changes black to white, guilt to innocence

Hail their sophistry and imposture as inspiration

He was too honest to judge soundly and to act rightly

Her present Serene Idiot, as she styles the Prince Borghese

Hero of great ambition and small capacity: La Fayette

How many reputations are gained by an impudent assurance

How much people talk about what they do not comprehend

If Bonaparte is fond of flattery__pays for it like a real Emperor

Indifference about futurity

Indifference of the French people to all religion

Invention of new tortures and improved racks

Irresolution and weakness in a commander operate the same

Its pretensions rose in proportion to the condescensions

Jealous of his wife as a lover of his mistress

Justice is invoked in vain when the criminal is powerful

Labour as much as possible in the dark

Love of life increase in proportion as its real value diminishes

Marble lives longer than man

May change his habitations six times in the month__yet be home

Men and women, old men and children are no more

Military diplomacy

Misfortunes and proscription would not only inspire courage

More vain than ambitious

My maid always sleeps with me when my husband is absent

My means were the boundaries of my wants

Napoleon invasion of States of the American Commonwealth

Nature has destined him to obey, and not to govern

Not suspected of any vices, but all his virtues are negative

Not only portable guillotines, but portable Jacobin clubs

Nothing was decided, though nothing was refused

Now that she is old (as is generally the case), turned devotee

One of the negative accomplices of the criminal

Opinion almost constitutes half the strength of armies

Prelate on whom Bonaparte intends to confer the Roman tiara

Prepared to become your victim, but not your accomplice

Presumptuous charlatan

Pretensions or passions of upstart vanity

Pride of an insupportable and outrageous ambition

Procure him after a useless life, a glorious death

Promises of impostors or fools to delude the ignorant

Prudence without weakness, and with firmness without obstinacy

Saints supplied her with a finger, a toe, or some other parts

Salaries as the men, under the name of washerwomen

Satisfying himself with keeping three mistresses only

Should our system of cringing continue progressively

Sold cats' meat and tripe in the streets of Rome

Step is but short from superstition to infidelity

Sufferings of individuals, he said, are nothing

Suspicion and tyranny are inseparable companions

Suspicion is evidence

They will create some quarrel to destroy you

They ought to be just before they are generous

This is the age of upstarts," said Talleyrand

Thought at least extraordinary, even by our friends

Thought himself eloquent when only insolent or impertinent

Two hundred and twenty thousand prostitute licenses

Under the notion of being frank, are rude

United States will be exposed to Napoleon's outrages

Usurped the easy direction of ignorance

Vices or virtues of all civilized nations are relatively the same

Want is the parent of industry

We are tired of everything, even of our existence

Were my generals as great fools as some of my Ministers

Which crime in power has interest to render impenetrable

Who complains is shot as a conspirator

With us, unfortunately, suspicion is the same as conviction

Would cease to rule the day he became just

THE ENTIRE HISTORIC COURT MEMOIRS OF FRANCE SERIES

THE ENTIRE HISTORIC COURT MEMOIRS OF FRANCE SERIES

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A man born solely to contradict

A stranger to remorse and repentance, as well as to honour

A pious Capuchin explained her dream to her

A cardinal may be poisoned, stabbed, got rid of altogether

A good friend when a friend at all, which was rare

A King's son, a King's father, and never a King

A liar ought to have a good memory

A lingering fear lest the sick man should recover

A king is made for his subjects, and not the subjects for him

Accused of fanaticism, because she refused to cohabit with him

Admit our ignorance, and not to give fictions and inventions

Adversity is solitary, while prosperity dwells in a crowd

Advised the King not to separate himself from his army

Ah, Madame, we have all been killed in our masters' service!

Air of science calculated to deceive the vulgar

Alas! her griefs double mine!

All the death-in-life of a convent

All priests are to be proscribed as criminals

All his creditors, denounced and executed

Allowed her candles and as much firewood as she wanted

Always sold at a loss which must be sold at a given moment

Always has a fictitious malady in reserve

Ambition puts a thick bandage over the eyes

And then he would go off, laughing in his sleeve

And scarcely a woman; for your answers are very short

Aptitude did not come up to my desire

Armed with beauty and sarcasm

Arranged his affairs that he died without money

Art of satisfying people even while he reproved their requests

Artagnan, captain of the grey musketeers

As confident and obstinate as ignorant

As everywhere else, supported injustice by violence

Asked the King a hundred questions, which is not the fashion

Bad company spoils good manners

Bad habit of talking very indiscreetly before others

Beaumarchais sent arms to the Americans

Because he is fat, he is thought dull and heavy

Because the Queen has only the rinsings of the glass

Believed that to undertake and succeed were only the same things

Bestowing on the Almighty the passions of mortals

Better to die than to implicate anybody

Bonaparte dreads more the liberty of the Press than all other

Bonaparte and his wife go now every morning to hear Mass

Bourrienne

Bow to their charlatanism as if it was sublimity

Brought me her daughter Hortense de Beauharnais

But all shame is extinct in France

But with a crawling baseness equal to her previous audacity

Can make a Duchess a beggar, but cannot make a beggar a Duchess

Cannot reconcile themselves to what exists

Cannot be expressed, and if expressed, would not be believed

Canvassing for a majority to set up D'Orleans

Capacity was small, and yet he believed he knew everything

Carried the idea of the prerogative of rank to a high pitch

Chevalier of the Guillotine: Toureaux

Clergy enjoyed one-third the national revenues

Clouds—you may see what you please in them

Comeliness of his person, which at all times pleads powerfully

Common and blamable practice of indulgence

Compelled to pay, who would have preferred giving voluntarily

Complacency which may be felt, but ought never to be published

Condescension which renders approbation more offensive

Conduct of the sort which cements and revives attachments

Conjugal impatience of the Duc de Bourgogne

Console me on the morrow for what had troubled me to-day

Countries of the Inquisition, where science is a crime

Country where power forces the law to lie dormant

Cuddlings and caresses of decrepitude

Customs are nearly equal to laws

Danger of inducing hypocrisy by placing devotion too high

Danger of confiding the administration to noblemen

Dared to say to me, so he writes

Dead always in fault, and cannot be put out of sight too soon

Death came to laugh at him for the sweating labour he had taken

Declaring the Duke of Orleans the constitutional King

Depicting other figures she really portrays her own

Depopulated a quarter of the realm

Desmarets no longer knew of what wood to make a crutch

Difference between brilliant theories and the simplest practice

Dignified tone which alone secures the respect due to power

Displaying her acquirements with rather too much confidence

Distinguished for their piety or rewarded for their flattery

Do not repulse him in his fond moments

Domestics included two nurses, a waiting-maid, a physician

Duc de Grammont, then Ambassador, played the Confessor

Duc d'Orleans, when called on to give his vote for death of King

Duplicity passes for wit, and frankness is looked upon as folly

Easy to give places to men to whom Nature has refused parts

Educate his children as quietists in matters of religion

Elegant entertainments were given to Doctor Franklin

Embonpoint of the French Princesses

Encounter with dignity and self-command unbecoming provocations

Enriched one at the expense of the other

Envy and malice are self-deceivers

Error to admit any neutrality at all

Etiquette still existed at Court, dignity alone was wanting

Even doubt whether he believes in the existence of a God

Everything in the world bore a double aspect

Exceeded all that was promised of her, and all that I had hoped

Exclaimed so long against high head-dresses

Expeditious justice, as it is called here

Extravagances of a head filled with paradoxes

Extravagant, without the means to be so

Extreme simplicity was the Queens first and only real mistake

Fashion of wearing a black coat without being in mourning

Fatal error of conscious rectitude

Favourite of a queen is not, in France, a happy one

Feel themselves injured by the favour shown to others

Feeling, however, the want of consolation in their misfortunes

Few would be enriched at the expense of the many

Few individuals except Princesses do with parade and publicity

Follies and superstitions as the rosaries and other things

Foolishly occupying themselves with petty matters

For penance: "we must make our servants fast"

For want of better support I sustained myself with courage

Forced military men to kneel before priests

Formed rather to endure calamity with patience than to contend

Formerly the custom to swear horridly on all occasions

Found it easier to fly into a rage than to reply

Frailty in the ambitious, through which the artful can act

French people do not do things by halves

French Revolution was fostered by robbery and murder

Frequent and excessive bathing have undermined her health

Fresh proof of the intrigues of the Jesuits

From bad to worse was easy

From faith to action the bridge is short

Future effects dreaded from its past enormities

General who is too fond of his life ought never to enter a camp

Generals of Cabinets are often indifferent captains in the field

God is only the invention of fear

Gold, changes black to white, guilt to innocence

Grand-Dieu, mamma! will it be yesterday over again?

Great filthiness in the interior of their houses

Great things originated from the most insignificant trifles

Grow like a dilapidated house; I am only here to repair myself

Hail their sophistry and imposture as inspiration

Happiness does not dwell in palaces

Happy with him as a woman who takes her husband's place can be

Hate me, but fear me

He was scarcely taught how to read or write

He was accused of putting on an imperceptible touch of rouge

He was too honest to judge soundly and to act rightly

He contradicted me about trifles

He liked nobody to be in any way superior to him

He always slept in the Queen's bed

He is afraid to command

He was not fool enough for his place

He who quits the field loses it

He limped audaciously

He was a good sort of man, notwithstanding his weaknesses

He had good natural wit, but was extremely ignorant

He had pleased (the King) by his drugs

He was born bored; he was so accustomed to live out of himself

He was so good that I sometimes reproached him for it

He was often firm in promises

Hearsay liable to be influenced by ignorance or malice

Height to which her insignificance had risen

Her present Serene Idiot, as she styles the Prince Borghese

Her teeth were very ugly, being black and broken (Queen)

Hero of great ambition and small capacity: La Fayette

His ruin was resolved on; they passed to the order of the day

His death, so happy for him and so sad for his friends

His habits were publicly known to be those of the Greeks

His great piety contributed to weaken his mind

His seraglio in the Parc-aux-Cerfs

History of the man with the iron mask

Honesty is to be trusted before genius

Honour grows again as well as hair

Honours and success are followed by envy

Hopes they (enemies) should hereafter become our friends

How difficult it is to do good

How much people talk about what they do not comprehend

How can I have any regret when I partake your misfortunes

How many reputations are gained by an impudent assurance

I love the conveniences of life too well

I am unquestionably very ugly

I do not like these rhapsodies

I had a mind, he said, to commit one sin, but not two

I hate all that savours of fanaticism

I formed a religion of my own

I dared not touch that string

I abhorred to gain at the expense of others

I thought I should win it, and so I lost it

I have seldom been at a loss for something to laugh at

I myself being the first to make merry at it (my plainness)

I should praise you more had you praised me less

I never take medicine but on urgent occasions

I wished the husband not to be informed of it

If Bonaparte is fond of flattery—pays for it like a real Emperor

If ever I establish a republic of women….

If I should die, shall I not have lived long enough?

Ignorance and superstition the first of virtues

Imagining themselves everywhere in marvellous danger of capture

In order to say something cutting to you, says it to himself

In England a man is the absolute proprietor of his wife

In the great world, a vague promise is the same as a refusal

In Rome justice and religion always rank second to politics

In ill-assorted unions, good sense or good nature must intervene

Indifference of the French people to all religion

Indifference about futurity

Indiscreet and tyrannical charity

Indulge in the pleasure of vice and assume the credit of virtue

Infinite astonishment at his sharing the common destiny

Interests of all interested painted on their faces

Intimacy, once broken, cannot be renewed

Invention of new tortures and improved racks

Irresolution and weakness in a commander operate the same

It is easier to offend me than to deceive me

It is an unfortunate thing for a man not to know himself

It was not permitted to argue with him

It is an ill wind that blows no one any good

It is the usual frailty of our sex to be fond of flattery

It is a sign that I have touched the sore poin

Its pretensions rose in proportion to the condescensions

Jealous of his wife as a lover of his mistress

Jealous without motive, and almost without love

Jesuits: all means were good that furthered his designs

Jewels and decoration attract attention (to the ugly)

Judge of men by the company they keep

Juggle, which put the wealth of Peter into the pockets of Paul

Justice is invoked in vain when the criminal is powerful

King was being wheeled in his easy chair in the gardens

King (gave) the fatal order to the Swiss to cease firing

Kings only desire to be obeyed when they command

Knew how to point the Bastille cannon at the troops of the King

La Fayette to rescue the royal family and convey them to Rouen

Labour as much as possible in the dark

Laughed at qualities she could not comprehend

Laws will only be as so many black lines on white paper

Leave me in peace; be assured that I can put no heir in danger

Les culottes—what do you call them?' 'Small clothes,'

Less easily forget the injuries we inflict than those received

Like will to like

Listeners never hear any good of themselves

Louis Philippe, the usurper of the inheritance of her family

Louis XIV. scarcely knew how to read and write

Love of life increase in proportion as its real value diminishes

Love-affair between Mademoiselle de la Valliere and the King

Lovers are not criminal in the estimation of one another

Madame de Montespan had died of an attack of coquetry

Madame made the Treaty of Sienna

Madame de Sevigne

Madame de Maintenon in returning young and poor from America

Made his mistresses treat her with all becoming respect

Make religion a little more palpable

Manifesto of a man who disgorges his bile

Many an aching heart rides in a carriage

Marble lives longer than man

May change his habitations six times in the month—yet be home

Men and women, old men and children are no more

Mightily tired of masters and books

Military diplomacy

Mind well stored against human casualties

Mirabeau forgot that it was more easy to do harm than good

Misfortunes and proscription would not only inspire courage

Mistrust is the sure forerunner of hatred

Money the universal lever, and you are in want of it

Monseigneur, who had been out wolf-hunting

More facility I have as King to gratify myself

More vain than ambitious

More dangerous to attack the habits of men than their religion

Most intriguing little Carmelite in the kingdom

Much is forgiven to a king

My maid always sleeps with me when my husband is absent

My husband proposed separate beds

My little English protegee

My means were the boundaries of my wants

My wife went to bed, and received a crowd of visitors

My father fortunately found a library which amused him

Napoleon invasion of States of the American Commonwealth

Nature has destined him to obey, and not to govern

Necessity is said to be the mother of invention

Never been able to bend her to a more human way of life

Never was a man so ready with tears, so backward with grief

Never approached any other man near enough to know a difference

Never shall a drop of French blood be shed by my order

No ears that will discover when she (The Princess) is out of tune

No accounting for the caprices of a woman

No one is more dangerous than a man clothed with recent authority

No phrase becomes a proverb until after a century's experience

No man more ignorant of religion than the King was

No means, therefore, of being wise among so many fools

Nobility becoming poor could not afford to buy the high offices

None but little minds dreaded little books

Not show it off was as if one only possessed a kennel

Not only portable guillotines, but portable Jacobin clubs

Not to repose too much confidence in our friends

Not suspected of any vices, but all his virtues are negative

Not allowing ecclesiastics to meddle with public affairs

Not lawful to investigate in matters of religion

Nothing was decided, though nothing was refused

Now that she is old (as is generally the case), turned devotee

Observe the least pretension on account of the rank or fortune

Of course I shall be either hissed or applauded.

Of a politeness that was unendurable

Offering you the spectacle of my miseries

Oh, my lord! how many virtues you make me detest

Old Maintenon

Omissions must be repaired as soon as they are perceived

On domestic management depends the preservation of their fortune

One of the negative accomplices of the criminal

Only retire to make room for another race

Only your illegitimate daughter

Opinion almost constitutes half the strength of armies

Original manuscripts of the Memoirs of Cardinal Retz

Others were not allowed to dream as he had lived

Over-caution may produce evils almost equal to carelessness

Panegyric of the great Edmund Burke upon Marie Antoinette

Parliament aided the King to expel the Jesuits from France

Pension is granted on condition that his poems are never printed

People with difficulty believe what they have seen

People in independence are only the puppets of demagogues

People who had only sores to share

Permissible neither to applaud nor to hiss

Persuaded themselves they understood each other

Pleasure of making a great noise at little expense

Poetry without rhapsody

Policy, in sovereigns, is paramount to every other

Polite when necessary, but insolent when he dared

Pope excommunicated those who read the book or kept it

Pope not been ashamed to extol the Saint-Bartholomew

Prefer truth to embellishment

Prelate on whom Bonaparte intends to confer the Roman tiara

Prepared to become your victim, but not your accomplice

Present princes and let those be scandalised who will!

Presumptuous charlatan

Pretensions or passions of upstart vanity

Prevent disorder from organising itself

Pride of an insupportable and outrageous ambition

Princes thus accustomed to be treated as divinities

Princess at 12 years was not mistress of the whole alphabet

Procure him after a useless life, a glorious death

Promises of impostors or fools to delude the ignorant

Promotion was granted according to length of service

Provided they are talked of, they are satisfied

Prudence without weakness, and with firmness without obstinacy

Quiet work of ruin by whispers and detraction

Rabble, always ready to insult genius, virtue, and misfortune

Rather out of contempt, and because it was good policy

Received all the Court in her bed

Regardlessness of appearances

Reproaches rarely succeed in love

Respectful without servility

Revocation of the edict of Nantes

Revolution not as the Americans, founded on grievances

Ridicule, than which no weapon is more false or deadly

Robes battantes for the purpose of concealing her pregnancy

Rome must be infallible, or she is nothing

Said that if they were good, they were sure to be hated

Saints supplied her with a finger, a toe, or some other parts

Salaries as the men, under the name of washerwomen

Salique Laws

Satire without bitterness

Satisfying himself with keeping three mistresses only

Saw peace desired were they less inclined to listen to terms

Saw no other advantage in it than that of saving her own life

Says all that he means, and resolutely means all that he can say

Scarcely any history has been written at first hand

Seeing myself look as ugly as I really am (in a mirror)

Seeing him eat olives with a fork!

Sending astronomers to Mexico and Peru, to measure the earth

Sentiment is more prompt, and inspires me with fear

She often carried her economy to a degree of parsimony

She never could be agreeable to women

She lose her head, and her accomplice to be broken on the wheel

She drives quick and will certainly be overturned on the road

She always says the right thing in the right place

She awaits your replies without interruption

Shocking to find so little a man in the son of the Marechal

Should our system of cringing continue progressively

Shun all kinds of confidence

Simplicity of the Queen's toilet began to be strongly censured

Since becoming Queen she had not had a day of real happiness

Situated as I was betwixt fear and hope

Situations in life where we are condemned to see evil done

So many crimes perpetrated under that name (liberty)

So great a fear of hell had been instilled into the King

Sold cats' meat and tripe in the streets of Rome

Soon tired of war, and wishing to return home (Louis XIV)

Spark of ambition would have destroyed all his edifice

Spirit of party can degrade the character of a nation

Spoil all by asking too much

Spoke only about as much as three or four women

Step is but short from superstition to infidelity

Stout, healthy girl of nineteen had no other sins to confess

Subject to frequent fits of abstraction

Subjecting the vanquished to be tried by the conquerors

Sufferings of individuals, he said, are nothing

Sulpicians

Supported by unanswerable reasons that did not convince

Suppression of all superfluous religious institutions

Suspicion and tyranny are inseparable companions

Suspicion of a goitre, which did not ill become her

Suspicion is evidence

Sworn that she had thought of nothing but you all her life

Taken pains only to render himself beloved by his pupil

Talent without artifice

Tastes may change

Teacher lost little, because he had little to lose

Thank Heaven, I am out of harness

That what he called love was mere debauchery

That air of truth which always carries conviction

That Which Often It is Best to Ignore

The Jesuits were suppressed

The emigrant party have their intrigues and schemes

The King delighted to manage the most disgraceful points

The charge of extravagance

The three ministers, more ambitious than amorous

The anti-Austrian party, discontented and vindictive

The author (Beaumarchais) was sent to prison soon afterwards

The record of the war is as the smoke of a furnace

The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day

The pretended reformed religion

The King replied that "too much was too much"

The King remained as if paralysed and stupefied

The shortness of each day was his only sorrow

The safest place on the Continent

The most horrible sights have often ridiculous contrasts

The old woman (Madame Maintenon)

The nothingness of what the world calls great destinies

The argument of interest is the best of all with monks

The clergy, to whom envy is not unfamiliar

The pulpit is in want of comedians; they work wonders there

The monarch suddenly enough rejuvenated his attire

The porter and the soldier were arrested and tortured

Then comes discouragement; after that, habit

There was no end to the outrageous civilities of M. de Coislin

There is not one real patriot among all this infamous horde

There is too much of it for earnest, and not enough for jest

There is an exaggeration in your sorrow

These expounders—or confounders—of codes

These liars in surplice, in black cassock, or in purple

They ought to be just before they are generous

They will create some quarrel to destroy you

They say you live very poorly here, Moliere

This is the age of upstarts," said Talleyrand

Those muskets were immediately embarked and sold to the Americans

Those who have given offence to hate the offended party

Those who did it should not pretend to wish to remedy it

Thought at least extraordinary, even by our friends

Thought himself eloquent when only insolent or impertinent

Throw his priest into the Necker

Time, the irresistible healer

To tell the truth, I was never very fond of having children

To despise money, is to despise happiness, liberty…

To be accused was to incur instant death

To die is the least event of my life (Maintenon)

To be formally mistress, a husband had to be found

To embellish my story I have neither leisure nor ability

Touched, but like a man who does not wish to seem so

Traducing virtues the slanderers never possessed

Troubles might not be lasting

True nobility, gentlemen, consists in giving proofs of it

Trust not in kings

Two hundred and twenty thousand prostitute licenses

Under the notion of being frank, are rude

Underrated what she could not imitate

United States will be exposed to Napoleon's outrages

Unreasonable love of admiration, was his ruin

Usurped the easy direction of ignorance

Ventured to give such rash advice: inoculation

Vices or virtues of all civilized nations are relatively the same

Violent passion had changed to mere friendship

Want is the parent of industry

Was but one brilliant action that she could perform

We are tired of everything, even of our existence

We die as we have lived, and 'tis rare it happens otherwise

We say "inexpressibles

We look upon you as a cat, or a dog, and go on talking

We must have obedience, and no reasoning

Weeping just as if princes had not got to die like anybody else

Well, this is royally ill played!

Went so far as to shed tears, his most difficult feat of all

Were my generals as great fools as some of my Ministers

What they need is abstinence, prohibitions, thwartings

What do young women stand in need of?—Mothers!

Whatever course I adopt many people will condemn me

When the only security of a King rests upon his troops

When one has been pretty, one imagines that one is still so

When kings become prisoners they are very near death

When women rule their reign is always stormy and troublous

When one has seen him, everything is excusable

Where the knout is the logician

Which crime in power has interest to render impenetrable

While the Queen was blamed, she was blindly imitated

Whispered in his mother's ear, "Was that right?"

Whitehall, the largest and ugliest palace in Europe

Who counted others only as they stood in relation to himself

Who confound logic with their wishes

Who complains is shot as a conspirator

Wife: property or of furniture, useful to his house

Wise and disdainful silence is difficult to keep under reverses

Wish you had the generosity to show, now and again, less wit

Wish art to eclipse nature

With us, unfortunately, suspicion is the same as conviction

With him one's life was safe

Women who misconduct themselves are pitiless and severe

Won for himself a great name and great wealth by words

World; so unreasoning, and so little in accord with itself

Would you like to be a cardinal? I can manage that

"Would be a pity," she said, "to stop when so fairly on the road"

Would cease to rule the day he became just

You are a King; you weep, and yet I go

You never look in a mirror when you pass it

You know, madame, that he generally gets everything he wants

You tell me bad news: having packed up, I had rather go

Young Prince suffered from the rickets

Young girls seldom take much notice of children

Your swords have rusted in their scabbards

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Table of Contents

WIDGER'S QUOTATIONS

EDITOR'S NOTE

HISTORIC COURT MEMOIRS IN 62 VOLUMES

THE MEMOIRS OF MARGUERITE DE VALOIS

THE MEMOIRS OF CARDINAL DE RETZ

THE MEMOIRS OF MADAME DE MONTESPAN

MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY DUCHESSE D'ORLEANS

MEMOIRS OF MARIE ANTOINETTE, BY MADAME CAMPAN

MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF ST. CLOUD BY A GENTLEMAN AT PARIS

THE ENTIRE HISTORIC COURT MEMOIRS OF FRANCE SERIES

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