Agrippa d'Aubigné

'Théodore-Agrippa d'Aubigné (8 February 1552 – 29 April 1630) was a French poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler. His epic poem Les Tragiques (1616) is widely regarded as his masterpiece. He was a noted Protestant during the French Wars of Religion.

Quotes

• Qui va plus tost que la fumée,
  Si ce n'est la flamme allumée?
  Plus tost que la flamme? le vent:
  Plus tost que le vent? c'est la femme:
  Quoi plus? rien, elle va devant
  Le vent, la fumée et la flamme.
  • Than smoke what swifter can ye name,
    Unless it be the lighted flame?
    What swifter than the flame? The wind.
    Swifter than that? 'Tis womankind.
    What swifter? Nothing; she with ease
    Outstrips alike flame, smoke and breeze.
  • Sur l'inconstance de la femme, Petites Œuvres mêlées (1630), p. 169 (tr. Harbottle and Dalbiac, 1904)

See also

• Jean de La Ceppède
• Keith Bosley

External links

• T. B. Harbottle and P. H. Dalbiac (eds.) Dictionary of Quotations: French and Italian, 2nd ed. (1904), pp. 27, 76, 91, 125, 197, 230
• Norbert Guterman (ed.) The Anchor Book of French Quotations (1990 [1965]), pp. 58, 59; originally published as A Book of French Quotations (Doubleday, 1963)
• L. L. Levinson (ed.) Bartlett's Unfamiliar Quotations (1971), p. 320