Pierre-Édouard Lémontey

Many men kill themselves for love, but many more women die of it.

Pierre-Édouard Lémontey (14 January 1762 – 26 June 1826) was a French lawyer, politician, scholar, and historian.

Quotes

A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

Edited by J. de Finod. New York: D. Appleton and Co.

• Of all heavy bodies, the heaviest is the woman we have ceased to love.
  • p. 13

• Many men kill themselves for love, but many more women die of it.
  • p. 20

• Let youth dance: tempests of the heart arise after the repose of the limbs.
  • p. 25

• Nature, when she amused herself by giving stiff manners to old maids, put virtue in a very bad light. A woman must have been a mother to preserve under the chilling influences of time that grace of manner and sweetness of temper, which prompt us to say, "One sees that love has dwelt there."
  • p. 59

• Virtue, with some women, is but the precaution of locking doors.
  • p. 184

• Love, which is such a little thing, is still the most serious thing in life.
  • p. 228