Pierre-Édouard Lémontey

“Love, which is such a little thing, is still the most serious thing in life.”

“Virtue, with some women, is but the precaution of locking doors.”

“Nature, when she amused herself by giving stiff manners to old maids, put virtue in a very bad light. A woman must have been a mother to preserve under the chilling influences of time that grace of manner and sweetness of temper, which prompt us to say, "One sees that love has dwelt there."”

“Let youth dance: tempests of the heart arise after the repose of the limbs.”

“Many men kill themselves for love, but many more women die of it.”

“Of all heavy bodies, the heaviest is the woman we have ceased to love.”