Quotes About Trust

Mais la grande marque d'amour, c'est d'être soumis aux volontés de celle qu'on aime.

Contre la médisance il n'est point de rempart.

si vous m'aimez, monsieur, vous devez vouloir tout ce que je veux.

TARTUFFE. If Heaven is all that stands now in my way, I'll easily remove that little hindrance; Your heart need not hold back for such a trifle.

On n'a pas besoin de lumière, quand on est conduit par le ciel

People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.

Je puis croire ces mots, un artifice honnête. Je ne me fierai point à des propos si doux, Qu'un peu de ses faveurs, après quoi je soupire, Ne vienne m'assurer tout ce qu'ils m'ont pu dire.

That is the usual strain of all your kind; They must have every one as blind as they.

Je ne me fîerai point à des propos si doux, Qu'un peu de ses faveurs, après quoi je soupire. Ne vienne m'assurer tout ce qu'ils m'ont pu dire.

it's hard to be a faithful wife, in short, To certain husbands of a certain sort

Je veux qu'on soit sincère, et qu'en homme d'honneur, On ne lâche aucun mot qui ne parte du coeur.

Good Heaven, friend, do not trouble yourself. He will be a clever man who catches me in this way. I know all the cunning tricks and subtle devices which women use to deceive us, and how one is fooled by their dexterity, and I have taken precautions against this mischance. She whom I am marrying possesses all the innocence which may protect my forehead from evil influence.

The more we love someone, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that true love shows itself.

You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.

You may plainly perceive the traitor through his mask; he is well-known everywhere in his true colors; his rolling eyes and his honeyed tones impose only on those who do not know him.

My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.

A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.

Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.

Being alive requires of us a relationsip with the mysterious, life-long experience of letting go.

You know how it is between sisters in their middle age? that old old friendship, how loose-fitting it is? the comfort and safety in it? how you can let silence lie between you without it taking on any weight? how you can let words out of your mouth without wariness or precision because you know your sister will listen to what's worthwhile and let the rest fall out of her ears into the air? how you can be surly, unreasonable, stupid, in the certainty of her grace?

Sometimes we are reminded: All of us live steadfastly in that moment, the one between hope and the exercise of God's will.

In the great litterbox of relationships, shit happens.