Madame de La Fayette Quotes

France, Writer
March 18, 1634 – May, 25, 1693.

Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, comtesse de La Fayette (baptized 18 March 1634 – 25 May 1693), better known as Madame de La Fayette, was a French writer, the author of La Princesse de Clèves, France's first historical novel and one of the earliest novels in literature.

We pardon infidelities, but we do not forget them.

Madame de La Fayette
- Forget
- Infidelity
- Pardon
I have left all my business and all my husbands; I have taken with me only fair weather and my children, which is as much as I want.

Madame de La Fayette
- Children
- Business
- Change

If I had a lover who wanted to hear from me every day, I would break with him.

Madame de La Fayette
- Break
- Lovers
- Satiety
One is very weak when one is in love.

Madame de La Fayette
- Weak
If one thinks that one is happy, that is enough to be happy.

Madame de La Fayette
- Life
- Thinking
- Happy
One may forgive infidelity, but one does not forget it.

Madame de La Fayette
- May
- Forgiving
- Infidelity
You love writing; I hate it; and if I had a lover who expected a note from me every morning, I should certainly break with him. Let me beg you then not to measure my friendship by my writing.

Madame de La Fayette
- Writing
- Hate
- Morning
Most mothers think that to keep young people away from love-making it is enough never to speak of it in their presence.

Madame de La Fayette
- People
- Thinking
- Mother