Cannot reconcile themselves to what exists Domestics included two nurses, a waiting-maid, a physician Extravagant, without the means to be so Happy with him as a woman who takes her husband's place can be Poetry without rhapsody Present princes and let those be scandalised who will! Satire without bitterness Talent without artifice The pulpit is in want of comedians; they work wonders there Then comes discouragement; after that, habit Trust not in kings What they need is abstinence, prohibitions, thwartings When one has seen him, everything is excusable Would you like to be a cardinal? I can manage that THE MEMOIRS OF MADAME DE MONTESPAN, V3 [CM#12][cm12b10.txt]3849 And then he would go off, laughing in his sleeve Hate me, but fear me He was not fool enough for his place I myself being the first to make merry at it (my plainness) In the great world, a vague promise is the same as a refusal It is easier to offend me than to deceive me Knew how to point the Bastille cannon at the troops of the King Madame de Sevigne Time, the irresistible healer Weeping just as if princes had not got to die like anybody else Went so far as to shed tears, his most difficult feat of all When one has been pretty, one imagines that one is still so THE MEMOIRS OF MADAME DE MONTESPAN, V4 [CM#13][cm13b10.txt]3850 All the death-in-life of a convent Cuddlings and caresses of decrepitude In ill-assorted unions, good sense or good nature must intervene THE MEMOIRS OF MADAME DE MONTESPAN, V5 [CM#14][cm14b10.txt]3851 Grow like a dilapidated house; I am only here to repair myself He contradicted me about trifles Intimacy, once broken, cannot be renewed Jealous without motive, and almost without love The King replied that "too much was too much" The monarch suddenly enough rejuvenated his attire There is an exaggeration in your sorrow THE MEMOIRS OF MADAME DE MONTESPAN, V6 [CM#15][cm15b10.txt]3852 Always sold at a loss which must be sold at a given moment Permissible neither to applaud nor to hiss Respectful without servility She awaits your replies without interruption These liars in surplice, in black cassock, or in purple Wish you had the generosity to show, now and again, less wit You know, madame, that he generally gets everything he wants THE MEMOIRS OF MADAME DE MONTESPAN, V7 [CM#16][cm16b10.txt]3853 Ambition puts a thick bandage over the eyes Says all that he means, and resolutely means all that he can say Situations in life where we are condemned to see evil done Women who misconduct themselves are pitiless and severe THE ENTIRE MEMOIRS OF MADAME DE MONTESPAN [CM#17][cm17b10.txt]3854