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.

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
We pardon infidelities, but we do not forget them.

Madame de La Fayette
- Forget
- Infidelity
- Pardon

One is very weak when one is in love.

Madame de La Fayette
- Weak
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 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