Madeleine de Scudéry

thumb| Madeleine de Scudéry (15 November 1607 – 2 June 1701), often known simply as Mademoiselle de Scudéry, was a French writer. She was the younger sister of Georges de Scudéry. Attributed Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing. Reported in David Newnham, "Love: Books", The Guardian (10 February 2002) A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902) Reported in J. de Finod, ed., A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1902) Love makes mutes of those who habitually speak most fluently. How many people assume boldly the mask of virtue! Women should despise slander, and fear to provoke it. The head, however strong it may be, can accomplish nothing against the heart. Love is — I know not what; which comes — I know not whence; which is formed — I know not how; which enchants — I know not by what; and which ends — I know not when or why. Forty Thousand Quotations (1917) Reported in C. N. Douglas, ed., Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917) A jealous man always finds more than he looks for. How delightful it would be to love if one loved always! But alas! there are no eternal loves. Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards. Sudden friendships rarely live to ripeness. The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument. Women detest a jealous man whom they do not love, but it angers them when a man they do love is not jealous at times. External links Artamenes, or, The Grand Cyrus, translated by F. G., Gent., 5 vols. (London: Printed for H. Moseley and T. Dring, 1653–5) Category:1607 births Category:1701 deaths Category:Novelists from France Category:Women authors from France