Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

- Ninon de L'Enclos

The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.

- Ninon de L'Enclos

Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.

- Ninon de L'Enclos

Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.

- Ninon de L'Enclos

Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.

- Ninon de L'Enclos

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.

- Ninon de L'Enclos

The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

- Ninon de L'Enclos

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.

- Ninon de L'Enclos

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.

- Ninon de L'Enclos

A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a lover.

- Ninon de L'Enclos

Old age is a woman's hell.

- Ninon de L'Enclos

Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.

- Ninon de L'Enclos

If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet.

- Ninon de L'Enclos

The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.

- Ninon de L'Enclos

A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.

- Ninon de L'Enclos

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

- Ninon de L'Enclos

Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.

- Ninon de L'Enclos