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