Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse
Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse (9 November 1732 – 23 May 1776) was a French salon holder and letter writer. She held a prominent salon in Paris during the Enlightenment. She is best-known today, however, for her letters, first published in 1809, which offer compelling accounts of two tragic love affairs.
Quotes
[edit]A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
[edit]- Edited by J. de Finod. New York: D. Appleton and Co.
- It is the merit of those who praise that makes the value of the commendation.
- p. 82
- To envy anybody is to confess ourselves his inferior.
- p. 94
- To love is to make a compact with sorrow.
- p. 105
- In love, great pleasures come very near great sorrows.
- p. 183
- Benevolence rejuvenates the heart, exercise, the memory, and remembrance, life.
- p. 187
- Calumny spreads like an oil-spot: we endeavor to cleanse it, but the mark remains.
- p. 189
- A woman would be in despair if nature had formed her as fashion makes her appear.
- p. 212
- In a tête-à-tête we are never more interrupted than when we say nothing.
- p. 214
