
Les silences du colonel Bramble (The Silence of Colonel Bramble)
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1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
Les silences du colonel Bramble (The Silence of Colonel Bramble)
L’homme jouit du bonheur qu’il ressent, et la femme de celui qu’elle procure. Cette différence, si essentielle et si peu remarquée, influe pourtant, d'une manière bien sensible, sur la totalité de leur conduite respective. Le plaisir de l’un est de satisfaire des désirs, celui de l’autre est surtout de les faire naître.
Letter 130: Madame de Rosemonde to Madame la Présidente Tourvel. Trans. Richard Aldington (1924). http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Liaisons_dangereuses_-_Lettre_130
Les liaisons dangereuses (1782)
“The beauty of living is found in having different opinions, tastes and desires.”
“Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.”
“The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.”
Sometimes published as an anonymous saying, this was attributed to Bishop Samuel Wilberforce in Is It Nothing To You? Social Purity, A Grave Moral Question (1884) by Henry Rowley, p. 88; to Samuel Taylor Coleridge in "Would You Be Re-elected", Munsey's Magazine (April 1909), p. 769; and to de Staël in Aspects of Western Civilization : Problems and Sources in History (2003), p. 294
Disputed
“I think a woman is born with the desire to hear she is beautiful.”
Source: Blink of an Eye
23 July 1827
Table Talk (1821–1834)