Madame de Sevigne Quotes

Most popular Madame de Sevigne Quotes

A devoted friendship is never without anxiety. - Madame de Sevigne quote.
A devoted friendship is never without anxiety.
— Madame de Sevigne

friendship

Ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never located. - Madame de Sevigne quote.
Ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never located.
— Madame de Sevigne
Providence is always on the side of the big battalions. - Madame de Sevigne quote.
Providence is always on the side of the big battalions.
— Madame de Sevigne
It is not always sorrow that opens the fountains of the eyes. - Madame de Sevigne quote.
It is not always sorrow that opens the fountains of the eyes.
— Madame de Sevigne Letters of Madame de Sévigné to her Daughter and Her Friends

sorrow tears

Good and evil travel on the same road, but they leave different impressions. - Madame de Sevigne quote.
Good and evil travel on the same road, but they leave different impressions.
— Madame de Sevigne

good and evil

It is sometimes better to slip over thoughts and not go to the bottom of them. - Madame de Sevigne quote.
It is sometimes better to slip over thoughts and not go to the bottom of them.
— Madame de Sevigne Letters of Madame de Sévigné to her Daughter and Her Friends

thoughts

If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives. - Madame de Sevigne quote.
If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.
— Madame de Sevigne
There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things. - Madame de Sevigne quote.
There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things.
— Madame de Sevigne Letters of Madame de Sévigné to her Daughter and Her Friends

pain