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Title: Quotes and Images From Memoirs of Madame De Montespan

Author: Madame De Montespan
Edited and Arranged by David Widger

Release Date: September 10, 2004 [EBook #7562]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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QUOTES AND IMAGES: MEMOIRS OF MADAME DE MONTESPAN

THE MEMOIRS OF MADAME DE MONTESPAN

By Madame de Montespan

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 di