Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne
Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne (born Nicolas-Edme Rétif or Nicolas-Edme Restif; 23 October 1734 – 3 February 1806), also known as Rétif, was a French novelist. The term retifism for shoe fetishism was named after him
Quotes
[edit]A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
[edit]- Edited by J. de Finod. New York: D. Appleton and Co.
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- At twenty, man is less a lover of woman than of women: he is more in love with the sex than with the individual, however charming she may be.
- p. 48
- The life of a woman is a long dissimulation. Candor, beauty, freshness, virginity, modesty — a woman has each of these but once. When lost, she must simulate them the rest of her life.
- p. 74
- The ear is the last resort of chastity: after it is expelled from the heart, it takes refuge there.
- p. 92
- A secret passion defends the heart of a woman better than her moral sense.
- p. 106
- The heart of youth is reached through the senses; the senses of age are reached through the heart.
- p. 145
Quotes about Restif de la Bretonne
[edit]- Restif de la Bretonne undoubtedly holds a remarkable place in French literature. He was inordinately vain, of extremely relaxed morals, and perhaps not entirely sane. His books were written with haste, and their licence of subject and language renders them quite unfit for general perusal.
- "Restif, Nicolas Edme", in Hugh Chisholm (ed.) Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed. (1911) vol. 23, p. 200
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