Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Alphonse de Lamartine
Autobiographer
Diplomat
Foreign Minister
Historian
Poet
Politician
Prosaist
Writer
Notre-Dame-des-Vignes
Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
Life
Poet
Poetry
Least
More quotes by Alphonse de Lamartine
Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Soul of the universe, Sire, God, Creator, Lord, I believe in Thee, 'neath all these names: And without having need to hear thy word, In the sky's brow my glorious creed I trace.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Yet, in these autumn days when Nature expires, Here, in these veiled scenes, I find more attractions It is a friend's sad goodbye it is the last smile From lips that death is going to close forever!
Alphonse de Lamartine
Love of country produces among men such examples as Cincinnatus, Alfred, Washington--pure, unselfish, symmetrical among women, Vittoria Colonna, Madame Roland, Charlotte Corday, Jeanne Darc--romantic, devoted, marvelous.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.
Alphonse de Lamartine
The most effective coquetry is innocence.
Alphonse de Lamartine
The photographer will never replace the painter one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)
Alphonse de Lamartine
Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Music is the literature of the heart it commences where speech ends.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Modesty and dew love the shade.
Alphonse de Lamartine
If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
Alphonse de Lamartine
History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.
Alphonse de Lamartine
France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.
Alphonse de Lamartine
But Nature too, shakes off her sleep today By May's mild sun we see reviv'd her frame, Around my window Venus' birds proclaim, The month most cherish'd backwards bends his way!
Alphonse de Lamartine
History teaches everything, even the future.
Alphonse de Lamartine
I love the people because I believe in God. For, if I did not believe in God, what would the people be to me? I should enjoy at ease that lucky throw of the dice, which chance had turned up for me, the day of my birth and, with a secret, savage joy, I should say, So much the worse for the losers!--the world is a lottery. Woe to the conquered!
Alphonse de Lamartine
If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters.
Alphonse de Lamartine