WIST Quotations

Swetchine, Sophie -- (Attributed)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

There is a transcendent power in example. We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

Anne Sophie Swetchine (1782-1857) Russian-French author and salonist [Madame Swetchine]
(Attributed)

Swetchine, Sophie -- Life and Letters of Madam Swetchine, ch. 5 [8th ed., 1875] (ed. de Falloux; tr. Preston]

Dave — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 00:39:52 +0000

How easy it is to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success!

Anne Sophie Swetchine (1782-1857) Russian-French author and salonist [Madame Swetchine]
Life and Letters of Madam Swetchine, ch. 5 [8th ed., 1875] (ed. de Falloux; tr. Preston]
(Source)

Swetchine, Sophie -- The Writings of Madame Swetchine, “Airelles”, #25 (1869) [ed. Count de Falloux, tr. Preston]

Dave — Thu, 23 Nov 2017 06:10:45 +0000

We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.

Anne Sophie Swetchine (1782-1857) Russian-French author and salonist [Madame Swetchine]
The Writings of Madame Swetchine, “Airelles”, #25 (1869) [ed. Count de Falloux, tr. Preston]
(Source)