Olympe's Marriage Quotes

“The bane of our day is the rehabilitation of the lost woman – the fallen women, we say. Our poets, novelists, dramatists fill the heads of the young generation with romantic ideas of redemption through love, the virginity of the soul and other paradoxes of transcendental philosophy. These young women must become grand ladies…Marriage is their final catch. The fish must be worth the trouble.”
― Émile Augier, Olympe's Marriage

“Put a duck on a lake among swans, and you will observe that the duck regrets its mire, and will end by returning there.”
― Émile Augier, Olympe's Marriage