The old age of women is bearable only on condition that they do not take up any room, do not make any noise, do not demand any service; on condition that they render all the service that is expected of them, and actually have no existence except for the good of others.

— Suzanne Curchod

Suzanne Curchod Quotes

Love is the only possession which we can carry with us beyond the grave.

— Suzanne Curchod

A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous.

— Suzanne Curchod

Our own cast-off sorrows are not sufficient to constitute sympathy for others.

— Suzanne Curchod

The more heart, the more sorrow.

— Suzanne Curchod

The old age of women is bearable only on condition that they do not take up any room, do not make any noise, do not demand any service; on condition that they render all the service that is expected of them, and actually have no existence except for the good of others.

— Suzanne Curchod

You may be more prodigal of time than of money.

— Suzanne Curchod

One can impose silence on sentiment, but one can not give it limits.

— Suzanne Curchod

It is often a sign of wit not to show it, and not to see that others want it.

— Suzanne Curchod

For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue.

— Suzanne Curchod

In looking around me seeking for miserable resources against the heaviness of time, I open a book and I say to myself, as the cat to the fox: I have only one good turn, but I need no other.

— Suzanne Curchod

The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms. Everything is more beautiful when they have passed.

— Suzanne Curchod

Fiction is a potent agent for good – in the hands of the good.

— Suzanne Curchod

Recognized probity is the surest of all oaths.

— Suzanne Curchod

Obligation is the bitterest thraldom.

— Suzanne Curchod

Want of perseverance is the great fault of women in everything – morals, attention to health, friendship, and so on. It cannot be too often repeated that women never reach the end of anything through want of perseverance.

— Suzanne Curchod

Reason ought not, like vanity, to adorn herself with ancient parchments, and the display of a genealogical tree; more dignified in her proceedings, and proud of her immortal nature, she ought to derive everything from herself.

— Suzanne Curchod

A woman must be truly refined to incite chivalry in the heart of a man.

— Suzanne Curchod

That woman is happiest whose life is passed in the shadow of a manly, loving heart.

— Suzanne Curchod

Remarkable places are like the summits of rocks; eagles and reptiles only can get there.

— Suzanne Curchod

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

— Suzanne Curchod
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