"The French have a significant saying, that a woman who buys her complexion will sell it."

Previous Quote

If women were by nature what they make themselves by art; if they were to lose suddenly all the freshness of their complexion, and their faces to become as fiery and as leaden as they make them with the red and the paint they besmear themselves with, they would consider themselves the most wretched creatures on earth.

— Jean de la Bruyere