Quote

After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alphonse de Lamartine
Autobiographer
Diplomat
Foreign Minister
Historian
Poet
Politician
Prosaist
Writer
Notre-Dame-des-Vignes
Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
Next
Give
Giving
Men
Tear
Tears
Blood

More quotes by Alphonse de Lamartine

Image
Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
Esteem incites friendship, but not love the former is the twin brother of Reverence the latter is the child of Equality.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
Too much I've seen, and felt, and lov'd in life, Living I come to seek Lethaean calm Let me, fair scenes! forget all worldly strife, Oblivion solely is my bosom's balm.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out political passions, never.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
The most effective coquetry is innocence.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
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
Image
Void of freedom, what would virtue be?
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and most inexplicable they are of instinct and not of reason.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of o­ne spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
The people only understand what they can feel the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
Death, with funereal shades in vain surrounds me, My reason through his darkness seeth light: 'Tis the last step which brings me close to Thee: 'Tis the veil falling, 'twixt Thy face and mine.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
Fiction is the microscope of truth.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.
Alphonse de Lamartine