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Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.
Madame de Stael
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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
Literature
Society
Taste
More quotes by 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
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
When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue.
Madame de Stael
The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends.
Madame de Stael
[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought ... It soils the hope of youth. Only shameless vice is above its reach.
Madame de Stael
Prayer is the life of the soul.
Madame de Stael
The mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.
Madame de Stael
[The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness.
Madame de Stael
Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come for if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast of time?
Madame de Stael
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
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
I never was able to believe in the existence of next year except as in a metaphysical notion.
Madame de Stael
The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
Madame de Stael
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
Madame de Stael
The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.
Madame de Stael
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
women have no existence except in love the history of their life begins and ends with love!
Madame de Stael
A Gothic building engenders true religion ... The light, falling through colored glass, the singular forms of the architecture, unite to give a silent image of that infinite mystery which the soul for ever feels, and never comprehends.
Madame de Stael
The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.
Madame de Stael
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Madame de Stael
