THE ENTIRE HISTORIC COURT MEMOIRS OF FRANCE SERIES
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A man born solely to contradict
A stranger to remorse and repentance, as well as to honour
A pious Capuchin explained her dream to her
A cardinal may be poisoned, stabbed, got rid of altogether
A good friend when a friend at all, which was rare
A King's son, a King's father, and never a King
A liar ought to have a good memory
A lingering fear lest the sick man should recover
A king is made for his subjects, and not the subjects for him
Accused of fanaticism, because she refused to cohabit with him
Admit our ignorance, and not to give fictions and inventions
Adversity is solitary, while prosperity dwells in a crowd
Advised the King not to separate himself from his army
Ah, Madame, we have all been killed in our masters' service!
Air of science calculated to deceive the vulgar
Alas! her griefs double mine!
All the death-in-life of a convent
All priests are to be proscribed as criminals
All his creditors, denounced and executed
Allowed her candles and as much firewood as she wanted
Always sold at a loss which must be sold at a given moment
Always has a fictitious malady in reserve
Ambition puts a thick bandage over the eyes
And then he would go off, laughing in his sleeve
And scarcely a woman; for your answers are very short
Aptitude did not come up to my desire
Armed with beauty and sarcasm
Arranged his affairs that he died without money
Art of satisfying people even while he reproved their requests
Artagnan, captain of the grey musketeers
As confident and obstinate as ignorant
As everywhere else, supported injustice by violence
Asked the King a hundred questions, which is not the fashion
Bad company spoils good manners
Bad habit of talking very indiscreetly before others
Beaumarchais sent arms to the Americans
Because he is fat, he is thought dull and heavy
Because the Queen has only the rinsings of the glass
Believed that to undertake and succeed were only the same things
Bestowing on the Almighty the passions of mortals
Better to die than to implicate anybody
Bonaparte dreads more the liberty of the Press than all other
Bonaparte and his wife go now every morning to hear Mass
Bourrienne
Bow to their charlatanism as if it was sublimity
Brought me her daughter Hortense de Beauharnais
But all shame is extinct in France
But with a crawling baseness equal to her previous audacity
Can make a Duchess a beggar, but cannot make a beggar a Duchess
Cannot reconcile themselves to what exists
Cannot be expressed, and if expressed, would not be believed
Canvassing for a majority to set up D'Orleans
Capacity was small, and yet he believed he knew everything
Carried the idea of the prerogative of rank to a high pitch
Chevalier of the Guillotine: Toureaux
Clergy enjoyed one-third the national revenues
Clouds--you may see what you please in them
Comeliness of his person, which at all times pleads powerfully
Common and blamable practice of indulgence
Compelled to pay, who would have preferred giving voluntarily
Complacency which may be felt, but ought never to be published
Condescension which renders approbation more offensive
Conduct of the sort which cements and revives attachments
Conjugal impatience of the Duc de Bourgogne
Console me on the morrow for what had troubled me to-day
Countries of the Inquisition, where science is a crime
Country where power forces the law to lie dormant
Cuddlings and caresses of decrepitude
Customs are nearly equal to laws
Danger of inducing hypocrisy by placing devotion too high
Danger of confiding the administration to noblemen
Dared to say to me, so he writes
Dead always in fault, and cannot be put out of sight too soon
Death came to laugh at him for the sweating labour he had taken
Declaring the Duke of Orleans the constitutional King
Depicting other figures she really portrays her own
Depopulated a quarter of the realm
Desmarets no longer knew of what wood to make a crutch
Difference between brilliant theories and the simplest practice
Dignified tone which alone secures the respect due to power
Displaying her acquirements with rather too much confidence
Distinguished for their piety or rewarded for their flattery
Do not repulse him in his fond moments
Domestics included two nurses, a waiting-maid, a physician
Duc de Grammont, then Ambassador, played the Confessor
Duc d'Orleans, when called on to give his vote for death of King
Duplicity passes for wit, and frankness is looked upon as folly
Easy to give places to men to whom Nature has refused parts
Educate his children as quietists in matters of religion
Elegant entertainments were given to Doctor Franklin
Embonpoint of the French Princesses
Encounter with dignity and self-command unbecoming provocations
Enriched one at the expense of the other
Envy and malice are self-deceivers
Error to admit any neutrality at all
Etiquette still existed at Court, dignity alone was wanting
Even doubt whether he believes in the existence of a God
Everything in the world bore a double aspect
Exceeded all that was promised of her, and all that I had hoped
Exclaimed so long against high head-dresses
Expeditious justice, as it is called here
Extravagances of a head filled with paradoxes
Extravagant, without the means to be so
Extreme simplicity was the Queens first and only real mistake
Fashion of wearing a black coat without being in mourning
Fatal error of conscious rectitude
Favourite of a queen is not, in France, a happy one
Feel themselves injured by the favour shown to others
Feeling, however, the want of consolation in their misfortunes
Few would be enriched at the expense of the many
Few individuals except Princesses do with parade and publicity
Follies and superstitions as the rosaries and other things
Foolishly occupying themselves with petty matters
For penance: "we must make our servants fast"
For want of better support I sustained myself with courage
Forced military men to kneel before priests
Formed rather to endure calamity with patience than to contend
Formerly the custom to swear horridly on all occasions
Found it easier to fly into a rage than to reply
Frailty in the ambitious, through which the artful can act
French people do not do things by halves
French Revolution was fostered by robbery and murder
Frequent and excessive bathing have undermined her health
Fresh proof of the intrigues of the Jesuits
From bad to worse was easy
From faith to action the bridge is short
Future effects dreaded from its past enormities
General who is too fond of his life ought never to enter a camp
Generals of Cabinets are often indifferent captains in the field
God is only the invention of fear
Gold, changes black to white, guilt to innocence
Grand-Dieu, mamma! will it be yesterday over again?
Great filthiness in the interior of their houses
Great things originated from the most insignificant trifles
Grow like a dilapidated house; I am only here to repair myself
Hail their sophistry and imposture as inspiration
Happiness does not dwell in palaces
Happy with him as a woman who takes her husband's place can be
Hate me, but fear me
He was scarcely taught how to read or write
He was accused of putting on an imperceptible touch of rouge
He was too honest to judge soundly and to act rightly
He contradicted me about trifles
He liked nobody to be in any way superior to him
He always slept in the Queen's bed
He is afraid to command
He was not fool enough for his place
He who quits the field loses it
He limped audaciously
He was a good sort of man, notwithstanding his weaknesses
He had good natural wit, but was extremely ignorant
He had pleased (the King) by his drugs
He was born bored; he was so accustomed to live out of himself
He was so good that I sometimes reproached him for it
He was often firm in promises
Hearsay liable to be influenced by ignorance or malice
Height to which her insignificance had risen
Her present Serene Idiot, as she styles the Prince Borghese
Her teeth were very ugly, being black and broken (Queen)
Hero of great ambition and small capacity: La Fayette
His ruin was resolved on; they passed to the order of the day
His death, so happy for him and so sad for his friends
His habits were publicly known to be those of the Greeks
His great piety contributed to weaken his mind
His seraglio in the Parc-aux-Cerfs
History of the man with the iron mask
Honesty is to be trusted before genius
Honour grows again as well as hair
Honours and success are followed by envy
Hopes they (enemies) should hereafter become our friends
How difficult it is to do good
How much people talk about what they do not comprehend
How can I have any regret when I partake your misfortunes
How many reputations are gained by an impudent assurance
I love the conveniences of life too well
I am unquestionably very ugly
I do not like these rhapsodies
I had a mind, he said, to commit one sin, but not two
I hate all that savours of fanaticism
I formed a religion of my own
I dared not touch that string
I abhorred to gain at the expense of others
I thought I should win it, and so I lost it
I have seldom been at a loss for something to laugh at
I myself being the first to make merry at it (my plainness)
I should praise you more had you praised me less
I never take medicine but on urgent occasions
I wished the husband not to be informed of it
If Bonaparte is fond of flattery--pays for it like a real Emperor
If ever I establish a republic of women....
If I should die, shall I not have lived long enough?
Ignorance and superstition the first of virtues
Imagining themselves everywhere in marvellous danger of capture
In order to say something cutting to you, says it to himself
In England a man is the absolute proprietor of his wife
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
Indifference of the French people to all religion
Indifference about futurity
Indiscreet and tyrannical charity
Indulge in the pleasure of vice and assume the credit of virtue
Infinite astonishment at his sharing the common destiny
Interests of all interested painted on their faces
Intimacy, once broken, cannot be renewed
Invention of new tortures and improved racks
Irresolution and weakness in a commander operate the same
It is easier to offend me than to deceive me
It is an unfortunate thing for a man not to know himself
It was not permitted to argue with him
It is an ill wind that blows no one any good
It is the usual frailty of our sex to be fond of flattery
It is a sign that I have touched the sore poin
Its pretensions rose in proportion to the condescensions
Jealous of his wife as a lover of his mistress
Jealous without motive, and almost without love
Jesuits: all means were good that furthered his designs
Jewels and decoration attract attention (to the ugly)
Judge of men by the company they keep
Juggle, which put the wealth of Peter into the pockets of Paul
Justice is invoked in vain when the criminal is powerful
King was being wheeled in his easy chair in the gardens
King (gave) the fatal order to the Swiss to cease firing
Kings only desire to be obeyed when they command
Knew how to point the Bastille cannon at the troops of the King
La Fayette to rescue the royal family and convey them to Rouen
Labour as much as possible in the dark
Laughed at qualities she could not comprehend
Laws will only be as so many black lines on white paper
Leave me in peace; be assured that I can put no heir in danger
Les culottes--what do you call them?' 'Small clothes,'
Less easily forget the injuries we inflict than those received
Like will to like
Listeners never hear any good of themselves
Louis Philippe, the usurper of the inheritance of her family
Louis XIV. scarcely knew how to read and write
Love of life increase in proportion as its real value diminishes
Love-affair between Mademoiselle de la Valliere and the King
Lovers are not criminal in the estimation of one another
Madame de Montespan had died of an attack of coquetry
Madame made the Treaty of Sienna
Madame de Sevigne
Madame de Maintenon in returning young and poor from America
Made his mistresses treat her with all becoming respect
Make religion a little more palpable
Manifesto of a man who disgorges his bile
Many an aching heart rides in a carriage
Marble lives longer than man
May change his habitations six times in the month--yet be home
Men and women, old men and children are no more
Mightily tired of masters and books
Military diplomacy
Mind well stored against human casualties
Mirabeau forgot that it was more easy to do harm than good
Misfortunes and proscription would not only inspire courage
Mistrust is the sure forerunner of hatred
Money the universal lever, and you are in want of it
Monseigneur, who had been out wolf-hunting
More facility I have as King to gratify myself
More vain than ambitious
More dangerous to attack the habits of men than their religion
Most intriguing little Carmelite in the kingdom
Much is forgiven to a king
My maid always sleeps with me when my husband is absent
My husband proposed separate beds
My little English protegee
My means were the boundaries of my wants
My wife went to bed, and received a crowd of visitors
My father fortunately found a library which amused him
Napoleon invasion of States of the American Commonwealth
Nature has destined him to obey, and not to govern
Necessity is said to be the mother of invention
Never been able to bend her to a more human way of life
Never was a man so ready with tears, so backward with grief
Never approached any other man near enough to know a difference
Never shall a drop of French blood be shed by my order
No ears that will discover when she (The Princess) is out of tune
No accounting for the caprices of a woman
No one is more dangerous than a man clothed with recent authority
No phrase becomes a proverb until after a century's experience
No man more ignorant of religion than the King was
No means, therefore, of being wise among so many fools
Nobility becoming poor could not afford to buy the high offices
None but little minds dreaded little books
Not show it off was as if one only possessed a kennel
Not only portable guillotines, but portable Jacobin clubs
Not to repose too much confidence in our friends
Not suspected of any vices, but all his virtues are negative
Not allowing ecclesiastics to meddle with public affairs
Not lawful to investigate in matters of religion
Nothing was decided, though nothing was refused
Now that she is old (as is generally the case), turned devotee
Observe the least pretension on account of the rank or fortune
Of course I shall be either hissed or applauded.
Of a politeness that was unendurable
Offering you the spectacle of my miseries
Oh, my lord! how many virtues you make me detest
Old Maintenon
Omissions must be repaired as soon as they are perceived
On domestic management depends the preservation of their fortune
One of the negative accomplices of the criminal
Only retire to make room for another race
Only your illegitimate daughter
Opinion almost constitutes half the strength of armies
Original manuscripts of the Memoirs of Cardinal Retz
Others were not allowed to dream as he had lived
Over-caution may produce evils almost equal to carelessness
Panegyric of the great Edmund Burke upon Marie Antoinette
Parliament aided the King to expel the Jesuits from France
Pension is granted on condition that his poems are never printed
People with difficulty believe what they have seen
People in independence are only the puppets of demagogues
People who had only sores to share
Permissible neither to applaud nor to hiss
Persuaded themselves they understood each other
Pleasure of making a great noise at little expense
Poetry without rhapsody
Policy, in sovereigns, is paramount to every other
Polite when necessary, but insolent when he dared
Pope excommunicated those who read the book or kept it
Pope not been ashamed to extol the Saint-Bartholomew
Prefer truth to embellishment
Prelate on whom Bonaparte intends to confer the Roman tiara
Prepared to become your victim, but not your accomplice
Present princes and let those be scandalised who will!
Presumptuous charlatan
Pretensions or passions of upstart vanity
Prevent disorder from organising itself
Pride of an insupportable and outrageous ambition
Princes thus accustomed to be treated as divinities
Princess at 12 years was not mistress of the whole alphabet
Procure him after a useless life, a glorious death
Promises of impostors or fools to delude the ignorant
Promotion was granted according to length of service
Provided they are talked of, they are satisfied
Prudence without weakness, and with firmness without obstinacy
Quiet work of ruin by whispers and detraction
Rabble, always ready to insult genius, virtue, and misfortune
Rather out of contempt, and because it was good policy
Received all the Court in her bed
Regardlessness of appearances
Reproaches rarely succeed in love
Respectful without servility
Revocation of the edict of Nantes
Revolution not as the Americans, founded on grievances
Ridicule, than which no weapon is more false or deadly
Robes battantes for the purpose of concealing her pregnancy
Rome must be infallible, or she is nothing
Said that if they were good, they were sure to be hated
Saints supplied her with a finger, a toe, or some other parts
Salaries as the men, under the name of washerwomen
Salique Laws
Satire without bitterness
Satisfying himself with keeping three mistresses only
Saw peace desired were they less inclined to listen to terms
Saw no other advantage in it than that of saving her own life
Says all that he means, and resolutely means all that he can say
Scarcely any history has been written at first hand
Seeing myself look as ugly as I really am (in a mirror)
Seeing him eat olives with a fork!
Sending astronomers to Mexico and Peru, to measure the earth
Sentiment is more prompt, and inspires me with fear
She often carried her economy to a degree of parsimony
She never could be agreeable to women
She lose her head, and her accomplice to be broken on the wheel
She drives quick and will certainly be overturned on the road
She always says the right thing in the right place
She awaits your replies without interruption
Shocking to find so little a man in the son of the Marechal
Should our system of cringing continue progressively
Shun all kinds of confidence
Simplicity of the Queen's toilet began to be strongly censured
Since becoming Queen she had not had a day of real happiness
Situated as I was betwixt fear and hope
Situations in life where we are condemned to see evil done
So many crimes perpetrated under that name (liberty)
So great a fear of hell had been instilled into the King
Sold cats' meat and tripe in the streets of Rome
Soon tired of war, and wishing to return home (Louis XIV)
Spark of ambition would have destroyed all his edifice
Spirit of party can degrade the character of a nation
Spoil all by asking too much
Spoke only about as much as three or four women
Step is but short from superstition to infidelity
Stout, healthy girl of nineteen had no other sins to confess
Subject to frequent fits of abstraction
Subjecting the vanquished to be tried by the conquerors
Sufferings of individuals, he said, are nothing
Sulpicians
Supported by unanswerable reasons that did not convince
Suppression of all superfluous religious institutions
Suspicion and tyranny are inseparable companions
Suspicion of a goitre, which did not ill become her
Suspicion is evidence
Sworn that she had thought of nothing but you all her life
Taken pains only to render himself beloved by his pupil
Talent without artifice
Tastes may change
Teacher lost little, because he had little to lose
Thank Heaven, I am out of harness
That what he called love was mere debauchery
That air of truth which always carries conviction
That Which Often It is Best to Ignore
The Jesuits were suppressed
The emigrant party have their intrigues and schemes
The King delighted to manage the most disgraceful points
The charge of extravagance
The three ministers, more ambitious than amorous
The anti-Austrian party, discontented and vindictive
The author (Beaumarchais) was sent to prison soon afterwards
The record of the war is as the smoke of a furnace
The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day
The pretended reformed religion
The King replied that "too much was too much"
The King remained as if paralysed and stupefied
The shortness of each day was his only sorrow
The safest place on the Continent
The most horrible sights have often ridiculous contrasts
The old woman (Madame Maintenon)
The nothingness of what the world calls great destinies
The argument of interest is the best of all with monks
The clergy, to whom envy is not unfamiliar
The pulpit is in want of comedians; they work wonders there
The monarch suddenly enough rejuvenated his attire
The porter and the soldier were arrested and tortured
Then comes discouragement; after that, habit
There was no end to the outrageous civilities of M. de Coislin
There is not one real patriot among all this infamous horde
There is too much of it for earnest, and not enough for jest
There is an exaggeration in your sorrow
These expounders--or confounders--of codes
These liars in surplice, in black cassock, or in purple
They ought to be just before they are generous
They will create some quarrel to destroy you
They say you live very poorly here, Moliere
This is the age of upstarts," said Talleyrand
Those muskets were immediately embarked and sold to the Americans
Those who have given offence to hate the offended party
Those who did it should not pretend to wish to remedy it
Thought at least extraordinary, even by our friends
Thought himself eloquent when only insolent or impertinent
Throw his priest into the Necker
Time, the irresistible healer
To tell the truth, I was never very fond of having children
To despise money, is to despise happiness, liberty...
To be accused was to incur instant death
To die is the least event of my life (Maintenon)
To be formally mistress, a husband had to be found
To embellish my story I have neither leisure nor ability
Touched, but like a man who does not wish to seem so
Traducing virtues the slanderers never possessed
Troubles might not be lasting
True nobility, gentlemen, consists in giving proofs of it
Trust not in kings
Two hundred and twenty thousand prostitute licenses
Under the notion of being frank, are rude
Underrated what she could not imitate
United States will be exposed to Napoleon's outrages
Unreasonable love of admiration, was his ruin
Usurped the easy direction of ignorance
Ventured to give such rash advice: inoculation
Vices or virtues of all civilized nations are relatively the same
Violent passion had changed to mere friendship
Want is the parent of industry
Was but one brilliant action that she could perform
We are tired of everything, even of our existence
We die as we have lived, and 'tis rare it happens otherwise
We say "inexpressibles
We look upon you as a cat, or a dog, and go on talking
We must have obedience, and no reasoning
Weeping just as if princes had not got to die like anybody else
Well, this is royally ill played!
Went so far as to shed tears, his most difficult feat of all
Were my generals as great fools as some of my Ministers
What they need is abstinence, prohibitions, thwartings
What do young women stand in need of?--Mothers!
Whatever course I adopt many people will condemn me
When the only security of a King rests upon his troops
When one has been pretty, one imagines that one is still so
When kings become prisoners they are very near death
When women rule their reign is always stormy and troublous
When one has seen him, everything is excusable
Where the knout is the logician
Which crime in power has interest to render impenetrable
While the Queen was blamed, she was blindly imitated
Whispered in his mother's ear, "Was that right?"
Whitehall, the largest and ugliest palace in Europe
Who counted others only as they stood in relation to himself
Who confound logic with their wishes
Who complains is shot as a conspirator
Wife: property or of furniture, useful to his house
Wise and disdainful silence is difficult to keep under reverses
Wish you had the generosity to show, now and again, less wit
Wish art to eclipse nature
With us, unfortunately, suspicion is the same as conviction
With him one's life was safe
Women who misconduct themselves are pitiless and severe
Won for himself a great name and great wealth by words
World; so unreasoning, and so little in accord with itself
Would you like to be a cardinal? I can manage that
"Would be a pity," she said, "to stop when so fairly on the road"
Would cease to rule the day he became just
You are a King; you weep, and yet I go
You never look in a mirror when you pass it
You know, madame, that he generally gets everything he wants
You tell me bad news: having packed up, I had rather go
Young Prince suffered from the rickets
Young girls seldom take much notice of children
Your swords have rusted in their scabbards