Top 80 Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Quotes (2024 Update)
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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Quote: “He would elevate you to the first rank among the modish women; that is the way to gain consistency in life, and not sit blushing and crying as if your nuns had made you eat your dinner on your knees.”

51. “He would elevate you to the first rank among the modish women; that is the way to gain consistency in life, and not sit blushing and crying as if your nuns had made you eat your dinner on your knees.”

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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Quote: “Yes, of course it is a sad emotion when it is not shared by the person inspiring it; but where is happiness to be found if not in mutual love? Cordial friendship, gentle trust – the only trust which knows no limits – sorrows soothed and pleasure enhanced, the charm of hope and of remembrance: where else can you find all these but in love?”

52. “Yes, of course it is a sad emotion when it is not shared by the person inspiring it; but where is happiness to be found if not in mutual love? Cordial friendship, gentle trust – the only trust which knows no limits – sorrows soothed and pleasure enhanced, the charm of hope and of remembrance: where else can you find all these but in love?”

— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Quote: “Didn’t you know that it’s not until after enjoying its delights that Love can stop being blind.”

53. “Didn’t you know that it’s not until after enjoying its delights that Love can stop being blind.”

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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Quote: “Let her believe in virtue, but let her sacrifice it for my sake;.”

54. “Let her believe in virtue, but let her sacrifice it for my sake;.”

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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Quote: “Vous feignez de craindre l’amour, et vous ne voulez pas voir que vous seule causez les maux que vous lui reprochez.”

55. “Vous feignez de craindre l’amour, et vous ne voulez pas voir que vous seule causez les maux que vous lui reprochez.”

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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Quote: “Valmont is quite another matter: difficult to keep, and dangerous to leave. He demands great skill, or, if you have none, great tractability.”

56. “Valmont is quite another matter: difficult to keep, and dangerous to leave. He demands great skill, or, if you have none, great tractability.”

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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Quote: “A letter is the portrait of the soul.”

57. “A letter is the portrait of the soul.”

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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Quote: “You must be careful not to vex old ladies: they’re the ones who decide young women’s reputations.”

58. “You must be careful not to vex old ladies: they’re the ones who decide young women’s reputations.”

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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Quote: “What can I say? – I love, – yes, I love to distraction!”

59. “What can I say? – I love, – yes, I love to distraction!”

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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Quote: “They replace the seducing charms with attractive goodness and cheerfulness, whose charms increase with their years.”

60. “They replace the seducing charms with attractive goodness and cheerfulness, whose charms increase with their years.”

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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Quote: “On y parla de vous, et j’en dis, non pas tout le bien que j’en pense, mais tout celui que je n’en pense pas.”

61. “On y parla de vous, et j’en dis, non pas tout le bien que j’en pense, mais tout celui que je n’en pense pas.”

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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Quote: “I soon discovered that that enchanting form, which alone had raised my admiration, was the smallest of your attractions; your celestial soul astonished and seduced mine; I admired your beauty, but adored your virtue.”

62. “I soon discovered that that enchanting form, which alone had raised my admiration, was the smallest of your attractions; your celestial soul astonished and seduced mine; I admired your beauty, but adored your virtue.”

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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Quote: “Your portrait have I said? but a letter is the portrait of the soul; it has not, like a cold image, that degree of stagnation so opposite to love; it yields to all our actions by turns; it becomes animated, gives us enjoyment, and sinks into repose – All your sentiments are precious to me; and will you deprive me of the means of becoming possessed of them?”

63. “Your portrait have I said? but a letter is the portrait of the soul; it has not, like a cold image, that degree of stagnation so opposite to love; it yields to all our actions by turns; it becomes animated, gives us enjoyment, and sinks into repose – All your sentiments are precious to me; and will you deprive me of the means of becoming possessed of them?”

— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Quote: “Love, hatred, you have only to choose: it is all there with you under the same roof. You can enjoy life, caressing with one hand and killing with the other.”

64. “Love, hatred, you have only to choose: it is all there with you under the same roof. You can enjoy life, caressing with one hand and killing with the other.”

— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Quote: “It’s the little details that make for plausibility and plausibility makes fibs immaterial because nobody feels the need to check them.”

65. “It’s the little details that make for plausibility and plausibility makes fibs immaterial because nobody feels the need to check them.”

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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Quote: “If they do not see me at work, they shall at least see my work completed; they will then have nothing to do but to admire and applaud: for they shall applaud.”

66. “If they do not see me at work, they shall at least see my work completed; they will then have nothing to do but to admire and applaud: for they shall applaud.”

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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Quote: “Wanting to pay love with friendship is not to be afraid of ingratitude, but to be afraid of looking ungrateful.”

67. “Wanting to pay love with friendship is not to be afraid of ingratitude, but to be afraid of looking ungrateful.”

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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Quote: “Yes, Viscount, you loved Madame de Tourvel much, and you still love her; you love her to distraction: but because I made you ashamed, by way of amusement, you nobly sacrifice her. You would have sacrificed a thousand women rather than be laughed at. To what lengths will not vanity lead us! The wise man was right when he said it was the foe to happiness.”

68. “Yes, Viscount, you loved Madame de Tourvel much, and you still love her; you love her to distraction: but because I made you ashamed, by way of amusement, you nobly sacrifice her. You would have sacrificed a thousand women rather than be laughed at. To what lengths will not vanity lead us! The wise man was right when he said it was the foe to happiness.”

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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Quote: “Introduced into the world whilst yet a girl, I was devoted by my situation to silence and inaction; this time I made use of for reflection and observation. Looked upon as thoughtless and heedless, paying little attention to the discourses that were held out to me, I carefully laid up those that were meant to be concealed from me.”

69. “Introduced into the world whilst yet a girl, I was devoted by my situation to silence and inaction; this time I made use of for reflection and observation. Looked upon as thoughtless and heedless, paying little attention to the discourses that were held out to me, I carefully laid up those that were meant to be concealed from me.”

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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Quote: “I’m sure your lordship knows better than me,’ he said, ’that going to bed with a girl only means getting her to do something she wants to do, but from that to getting her to do what me want is often quite another story.”

70. “I’m sure your lordship knows better than me,’ he said, ’that going to bed with a girl only means getting her to do something she wants to do, but from that to getting her to do what me want is often quite another story.”

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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Quote: “I was still young and not very interesting; but my thoughts were the only things that belonged to me and I felt indignant that someone might snatch them from me or detect them against my will.”

71. “I was still young and not very interesting; but my thoughts were the only things that belonged to me and I felt indignant that someone might snatch them from me or detect them against my will.”

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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Quote: “Moreover, a remark I am astonished you have not made, is, that nothing is so difficult in love, as to write what one does not feel.”

72. “Moreover, a remark I am astonished you have not made, is, that nothing is so difficult in love, as to write what one does not feel.”

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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Quote: “Love is an independent spirit; being cautious may help us to avoid it but can never enable us to overcome it; once it’s born, it can only die of natural causes or complete hopelessness.”

73. “Love is an independent spirit; being cautious may help us to avoid it but can never enable us to overcome it; once it’s born, it can only die of natural causes or complete hopelessness.”

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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Quote: “We embarked on that tacit convention, the first article in the treaty of coy love, which satisfies a mutual desire to look at each other by allowing glances to alternate until they eventually meet.”

74. “We embarked on that tacit convention, the first article in the treaty of coy love, which satisfies a mutual desire to look at each other by allowing glances to alternate until they eventually meet.”

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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Quote: “At length the day arrived which gave birth to my misfortune;.”

75. “At length the day arrived which gave birth to my misfortune;.”

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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Quote: “A man enjoys the pleasure he feels, a woman the pleasure she bestows.”

76. “A man enjoys the pleasure he feels, a woman the pleasure she bestows.”

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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Quote: “This charm we find in other people is all in the mind; it’s only love which makes the loved one appear so wonderful.”

77. “This charm we find in other people is all in the mind; it’s only love which makes the loved one appear so wonderful.”

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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Quote: “What I blame myself for most, and what, nevertheless, I must tell you about, is that I am afraid I did not defend myself as well as I was able. I don’t know how that happened. I most certainly am not in love with Monsieur de Valmont, quite the contrary: yet there were moments when it was as if I were.”

78. “What I blame myself for most, and what, nevertheless, I must tell you about, is that I am afraid I did not defend myself as well as I was able. I don’t know how that happened. I most certainly am not in love with Monsieur de Valmont, quite the contrary: yet there were moments when it was as if I were.”

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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Quote: “I have looked into my own heart, I have studied in it the heart of others.”

79. “I have looked into my own heart, I have studied in it the heart of others.”

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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Quote: “What woman of honour, besides, would resolve on doing what she knows she will be obliged to conceal?”

80. “What woman of honour, besides, would resolve on doing what she knows she will be obliged to conceal?”

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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Quote: “Our reason, inadequate as it is to warn us of impending disasters, is even more inadequate to offer us any comfort for them.”

81. “Our reason, inadequate as it is to warn us of impending disasters, is even more inadequate to offer us any comfort for them.”

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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Quote: “It was then I was ascertained that love, which is represented as the first cause of all our pleasure, is at most but the pretence.”

82. “It was then I was ascertained that love, which is represented as the first cause of all our pleasure, is at most but the pretence.”

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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Quote: “Without doubt a letter appears very unnecessary when we can see one another freely – What could it say that a word, or look, or even silence itself, could not express?”

83. “Without doubt a letter appears very unnecessary when we can see one another freely – What could it say that a word, or look, or even silence itself, could not express?”

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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Quote: “The more you deny being a fool, the bigger fool you look.”

84. “The more you deny being a fool, the bigger fool you look.”

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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Quote: “The profligate wretch has his virtues as well as the virtuous man his weaknesses.”

85. “The profligate wretch has his virtues as well as the virtuous man his weaknesses.”

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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Quote: “God, aren’t brainy people obtuse!”

86. “God, aren’t brainy people obtuse!”

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