"Cousin Bette" Quotes
"Cousin Bette" is a dark tale of revenge and ruin as a vengeful spinster orchestrates the downfall of her wealthy relatives in 19th-century Paris.
classics | 529 pages | Published in 2008
Quotes
The man who thinks everything is possible is a fool; the man who thinks everything is impossible is a coward.
In every woman's life a moment comes when she has to choose between society and love.
The heart changes, and it is our worst sorrow; but we know it only through reading, through our imagination: in reality its alteration, like that of certain natural phenomena, is so gradual that, even if we are able to distinguish, successively, each of its different states, we are still spared the actual sensation of change.
The more one suffers, the more one has a right to judge.
It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He will make a false step, but he never goes back.
It is easy to promise, but it is difficult to keep one's word.
The secret of great success is the absence of passion.
We often ask God for what we think we need, instead of what He desires to give us.
The most wretched of all prisoners is the man who has never been in love.
