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Manon Lescaut QUOTES

Manon Lescaut QUOTES

1 " Some say that Love, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings and in a moment flies. "

― Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles , Manon Lescaut

2 " May your criminal enjoyments vanish as a shadow! may your ill-gotten wealth leave you without a resource; and may you yourself remain alone and deserted, to learn the vanity of these things, which now divert you from better pursuits! "

― Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles , Manon Lescaut

3 " The girl arrived; I thought her handsome; and as I doubted not that you would be mortified by my absence, I did most sincerely hope that she would be able to dissipate something of your ennui: for it is the fidelity of the heart alone that I value. "

― Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles , Manon Lescaut

4 " The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature. "

― Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles , Manon Lescaut

5 " It has never been matter of wonder to me that human resolutions are liable to change; one passion gives them birth, another may destroy them. "

― Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles , Manon Lescaut

6 " There is nothing more glorious—nothing that does more honour to true virtue, than the confidence with which one approaches a friend of tried integrity. "

― Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles , Manon Lescaut

7 " Love! love!.. thou art never to be reconciled with discretion! "

― Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles , Manon Lescaut

8 " The fidelity I expect of you is that of the heart "

― Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles , Manon Lescaut

9 " De la manière dont nous sommes faits, il est certain que notre félicité consiste dans le plaisir ; je défie qu'on s'en forme une autre idée ; or le cœur n'a pas besoin de se consulter longtemps pour sentir que, de tous les plaisirs, les plus doux sont ceux de l'amour. "

― Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles , Manon Lescaut

10 " on ne ferait pas une divinité de l'amour, s'il n'opérait souvent des prodiges. "

― Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles , Manon Lescaut

11 " ¡Pérfida Manon! "

― Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles , Manon Lescaut

12 " It has never surprised me that human resolutions should be subject to change: one passion prompts them‚ another may overturn them. "

― Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles , Manon Lescaut

13 " Pour moi, qui n'ai que de l'amour et de la constance à offrir les femmes méprisent ma misère et font leur jouet de ma simplicité. J'ajoutai "

― Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles , Manon Lescaut

14 " Ah ! les expressions ne rendent jamais qu'à demi les sentiments du cœur. "

― Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles , Manon Lescaut

15 " know my name and find out where I was? "

― Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles , Manon Lescaut

16 " Still‚ whatever the precise nature of what I felt‚ it’s certain that grief‚ resentment‚ jealousy and shame all came into it. If only love hadn’t been still more in evidence than all the rest! "

― Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles , Manon Lescaut

17 " It was at that moment that honour and virtue made me feel the pangs of remorse once more and I looked back with a sigh to Amiens‚ my father’s house‚ Saint-Sulpice and all those places where I’d lived in innocence. "

― Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles , Manon Lescaut

18 " Amongst the twelve women‚ chained together by the waist in sixes‚ was one whose demeanour was so at odds with her situation that in any other circumstances I would have taken her for a person of the highest rank. She was visibly distressed and her clothes were filthy‚ but these things detracted so little from the impression she made that I found myself filled with respect and pity for her. She was trying‚ as far as the chains would permit‚ to turn away from the onlookers and this attempt to conceal her face from them was so natural that it seemed inspired by female modesty. "

― Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles , Manon Lescaut

19 " I was horror-stricken at the contrast between the serenity of but a few moments ago and the wild stirrings of desire I could already feel within me. l was shuddering as you do when you find yourself alone at night on some desolate moorland, when all familiar bearings are lost and a panic fear comes over you that you can dispel only by calmly studying all the landmarks "

― Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles , Manon Lescaut

20 " I swear that you are the idol of my heart, my dear Chevalier, and there is nobody in the world I love as I love you. But don't you see, my poor darling, that loyalty is a silly virtue in the pass we are in? Do you really think we can love each other with nothing to eat? one fine day, Hunger would lead me into some fatal mistake and thinking I was sign for love, I should really be drawing my last breath "

― Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles , Manon Lescaut