Suzanne Curchod Quotes

Suzanne Curchod was a French-Swiss salonist and writer. She hosted one of the most celebrated salons of the Ancien Régime. She also led the development of the Hospice de Charité, a model small hospital in Paris that still exists today as the Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital. She was the wife of French finance minister Jacques Necker, and is often referenced in historical documents as Madame Necker. Wikipedia  

✵ 2. June 1737 – 15. May 1794   •   Other names Madame Necker
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Famous Suzanne Curchod Quotes

“Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.”

Reported in "The Viking Book of Aphorisms: A Personal Selection" By Wystan Hugh Auden, Louis Kronenberger (1981)

“It is never permissible to say, I say.”

Reported in Louis Klopsch, ed., Many Thoughts of Many Minds: A Treasury of Quotations From the Literature of Every Land and Every Age (1896), p. 80.

“Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.”

Reported in Louis Klopsch, ed., Many Thoughts of Many Minds: A Treasury of Quotations From the Literature of Every Land and Every Age (1896), p. 195.

“Romance is the poetry of literature.”

Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 676.

“How immense to us appear the sins we have not committed.”

Reported in Louis Klopsch, ed., Many Thoughts of Many Minds: A Treasury of Quotations From the Literature of Every Land and Every Age (1896), p. 229.

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