"Les Liaisons dangereuses" Quotes
"Les Liaisons dangereuses" is an epistolary novel in which two aristocratic ex-lovers manipulate and ruin the lives of others through seduction and deceit in pre-Revolutionary France.
classics | 448 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
I cease to live, or I cease to love you.
I know that I am hastening my own destruction.
I am to be a mere machine, useful to his passions, to his pleasures; I am to forget myself and consider only him!
I have been guilty of many errors, I shall be guilty of many more, but I never believed I was doing wrong.
The love I feel for you is too great to allow me to be your mistress.
I am paying for the follies of my youth.
I am chained to my own misery.
It is easy to distinguish between the truly noble and the spurious. The former never put on airs.
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
The pleasure of love is in love itself.
