Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Madame de Stael
Age: 51 †
Born: 1766
Born: April 22
Died: 1817
Died: July 14
Correspondent
Diarist
Literary Critic
Politician
Salonnière
Writer
Paris
France
Madame de Staël
Madame Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël
Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker
Mme de Staël
Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël
Anne-Louise-Germaine
Mme de Staël-Holstein
Baroness de Staël-Holstein Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker
Anne-Louise Germaine Necker
Germaine de Staël-Holstein
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein
Youth
Intrigue
Suffering
Oppose
Political
Lively
Women
Modesty
Must
Resentment
Men
Suffer
Meddle
Ambition
Intrigues
Projects
Excite
More quotes by Madame de Stael
Be happy, but be happy through piety.
Madame de Stael
Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.
Madame de Stael
Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man its publication is a duty.
Madame de Stael
The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'
Madame de Stael
The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.
Madame de Stael
You do not reach the sublime by degrees the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.
Madame de Stael
Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.
Madame de Stael
[On Napoleon:] One has the impression of an imperious wind blowing about one's ears when one is near that man.
Madame de Stael
One must, so long as there is any life left, back up the character of one's life.
Madame de Stael
To live beneath sorrow, one must yield to it.
Madame de Stael
All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.
Madame de Stael
Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.
Madame de Stael
inventiveness is childish, practice sublime.
Madame de Stael
There are women vain of advantages not connected with their persons, such as birth, rank, and fortune it is difficult to feel less the dignity of the sex. The origin of all women may be called celestial, for their power is the offspring of the gifts of Nature by yielding to pride and ambition they soon destroy the magic of their charms.
Madame de Stael
Never, never have I been loved as I love others!
Madame de Stael
The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.
Madame de Stael
New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were young.
Madame de Stael
Why shouldn't man be as angry about not having always been alive as about having to stop being alive?
Madame de Stael
What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it.
Madame de Stael
The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.
Madame de Stael
