Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Dorothee Luzy Dotinville (French Dancer, Actress)

Dorothée Luzy Dotinville (1747–1830,) or “Mademoiselle Luzy,” was a French dancer and actress.

Dotinville was a dancer at Paris’s Opéra-Comique 1757–62. In 1763, she started playing the roles of Dorine in Molière’s Tartuffe and Lisette in Jean-François Regnard’s Les Folies Amoureuses. Until she retired 18 years later in 1781, Dotinville played 26 roles in the plays and operas of Molière, Regnard, Pierre de Marivaux, and André Cardinal Destouches.

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Great culture is often betokened by great simplicity.
Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Topics: Culture

Women are far more impulsive than men; this is because they are more influenced by the heart than the head.
Dorothee Luzy Dotinville

What is a woman’s surest guardian angel? Indifference.
Dorothee Luzy Dotinville

There is but one book for genius – nature.
Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Topics: Genius, Character, Nature

A coquette is a woman without any heart, who makes a fool of a man that hasn’t got any head.
Dorothee Luzy Dotinville

Why are we so blind?—That which we improve, we have; that which we hoard, is not for ourselves.
Dorothee Luzy Dotinville

Nothing so truly becomes feminine beauty as simplicity.
Dorothee Luzy Dotinville

There is a vein of inconsistency in every woman’s heart, within whose portals love hath entered.
Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Topics: Woman, Love, Heart, Character

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.
Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Topics: Beginnings, Enemy, Master, Forgiveness, Friendship, One Step at a Time, Great

It is a shrewd device to pretend we have someone unimportant fault,?it overshadows so many serious defects.
Dorothee Luzy Dotinville

One crime is everything; two nothing.
Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Topics: Crime, Character, Criminals

I have only to take up this or that to flood my soul with memories.
Dorothee Luzy Dotinville

They teach us to dance; O that they could teach us to blush, did it cost a guinea a glow!
Dorothee Luzy Dotinville

We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection.—Is not this sad?
Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Topics: Reflection, Belief, Character, Evil, Good

Dignity and pride are of too near relationship for intermarriage.
Dorothee Luzy Dotinville

The hen of our neighbor appears to us a goose, says the Oriental proverb.
Dorothee Luzy Dotinville

There are sins of omission as well as those of commission.
Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Topics: Character, Sin

The anticipation of evil courts evil.
Dorothee Luzy Dotinville

Delicacy is the parent of decency.
Dorothee Luzy Dotinville

The most dangerous acquaintance a married woman can make is the female confidante.
Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Topics: Woman

Intrigue is a court distemper.
Dorothee Luzy Dotinville

Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fancy.
Dorothee Luzy Dotinville

What is joy? A sunbeam between two clouds.
Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Topics: Work, Focus

Gold does not satisfy love; it must be paid in its own coin.
Dorothee Luzy Dotinville

Audacity as against modesty will win the battle over most men.
Dorothee Luzy Dotinville

Women do not fancy timid men.
Dorothee Luzy Dotinville

The wrinkles of the heart are more indelible than those of the brow.
Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Topics: Heart, Character

Employment and ennui are simply incompatible.
Dorothee Luzy Dotinville
Topics: Character, Employment

Conceited people are never without a certain degree of harmless satisfaction wherewith to flavor the waters of life.
Dorothee Luzy Dotinville

We are so desirous of vengeance that people often offend us by not giving offence.
Dorothee Luzy Dotinville

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