X

Sort by

Quote length

Sentiment

Change font

Change background

Madame De Stael Inspirational Quotes (102)

Page 4 of 5
Filter & Style
Image
You do not reach the sublime by degrees the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.
Madame de Stael
Image
Life resembles Gobelin tapestry you do not see the canvass on the right side but when you turn it, the threads are visible.
Madame de Stael
Image
Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?
Madame de Stael
Image
When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer.
Madame de Stael
Image
Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!
Madame de Stael
Image
Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant morning of happiness.
Madame de Stael
Image
Whatever is natural admits of variety.
Madame de Stael
Image
Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman.
Madame de Stael
Image
Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
Madame de Stael
Image
Who understands much, forgives much.
Madame de Stael
Image
Conversation as talent exists only in France. In other countries, conversation provides politeness, discussion, and friendship in France, it is an art for which imagination and soul are certainly very welcome, but which can also provide its own secret remedies to compensate you for the absence of either or both, if you so desire.
Madame de Stael
Image
Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.
Madame de Stael
Image
Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.
Madame de Stael
Image
The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.
Madame de Stael
Image
Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line.
Madame de Stael
Image
The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends.
Madame de Stael
Image
Music revives the recollections it would appease.
Madame de Stael
Image
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Madame de Stael
Image
When at eve, at the bounding of the landscape, the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizon an asylum of hope, - a native land of love and nature seems silently to repeat that man is immortal.
Madame de Stael
Image
Prayer is the life of the soul.
Madame de Stael
Image
The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement. Either morality is a fable, or the more enlightened we are, the more attached to it we become.
Madame de Stael
Image
I never was able to believe in the existence of next year except as in a metaphysical notion.
Madame de Stael
Image
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
Madame de Stael
Image
Unhappy love freezes all our affections: our own souls grow inexplicable to us. More than we gained while we were happy we lose by the reverse.
Madame de Stael
Previous
Next