Quotes by : Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos

It has become necessary for me to have this woman, so as to save myself from the ridicule of being in....

It was there, in particular, that I confirmed the truth that love, which we cry up as the source of our....

When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal.....

He'd call me false and faithless and I've always had a weakness for those two words; next to cruel, they're....

Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The criminal....

One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave.

Don't you remember that love, like medicine, is only the art of encouraging nature?

Truth to tell, the longer I live, the more I'm tempted to think that the only moderately worthwhile people....

How characteristic of your perverse heart that longs only for what happens to be out of reach.

Moreover it is easier, in the informality of conversation, to achieve that excitement and incoherence....