Diane de Poitiers Quotes

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope in the one case we have nothing to lose in the other everything to gain.

Diane de Poitiers

She was born in the year of our Lord only knows. The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's.

Diane de Poitiers

We only make a dupe of the friend whose advice we ask for we never tell him all and it is usually what we have left unsaid that decides our conduct.

Diane de Poitiers