Quotes by Ninon de L'Enclos

Ninon de L'Enclos

A cunning woman is her own mistress because she confides in no one. She who deceives others anticipates deceit, and guards herself.

Deceit

Deceiving

Mistress

A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them

Choices

Men

Understanding

A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a lover.

Alaska

Heart

Husband

A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.

Divine

Influence

A woman should not take a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her reason.

Heart

Husband

Lovers

Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don’t see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.

Acting

People

Theatre

After the age of eighty, all contemporaries are friends.

Age

Eighty

Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices.

Ennui

Parent

Vices

Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs when placed beneath it.

Advent

Earth

Equality

Fair is not fair, but that which pleaseth.

Attractiveness

Fairs

Not Fair

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Book

Born

Burn Out

Carpe Diem

Certain

Children

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Cousin

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Death

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Deceiving

Delusion

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Dies

Divine

Doe

Earth

Easy

Eighty

Ennui

Enough

Equality

Eternity

Fairs

Feet

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Firmness

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Forget

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Quotes by Ninon de L'Enclos

Ninon de L'Enclos

A cunning woman is her own mistress because she confides in no one. She who deceives others anticipates deceit, and guards herself.

A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them

A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a lover.

A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.

A woman should not take a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her reason.

Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don’t see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.

After the age of eighty, all contemporaries are friends.

Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices.

Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs when placed beneath it.

Fair is not fair, but that which pleaseth.

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