Quotes by : Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos

...it is not for the illusion of a moment to govern the choice of a lifetime.

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

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....

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....

You may conquer her love of God: you will never overcome her fear of the devil.

Now, I'm not going to deny that I was aware of your beauty. But the point is, this has nothing to do....

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....