Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.
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
Causes
Others
Insensitivity
Self
Spare
Love
Spares
Sympathy
Rarely
Sensitive
Cause
More quotes by Madame de Stael
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
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
Men do not change they unmask themselves.
Madame de Stael
The universe is in France outside it, there is nothing.
Madame de Stael
One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.
Madame de Stael
Liberty is the only idea which circulates with the human blood, in all ages, in all countries, and in all literature - liberty that is, and what cannot be separated from liberty, a love of country.
Madame de Stael
One must, so long as there is any life left, back up the character of one's life.
Madame de Stael
O Earth! All bathed with blood and tears, yet never, Hast thou ceased putting forth thy fruit and flowers.
Madame de Stael
It is difficult to grow old gracefully.
Madame de Stael
a perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither.
Madame de Stael
The egotism of woman is always for two.
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 pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.
Madame de Stael
The entire social order ... is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation.
Madame de Stael
Never, never have I been loved as I love others!
Madame de Stael
Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
Madame de Stael
Music revives the recollections it would appease.
Madame de Stael
We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love
Madame de Stael
Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.
Madame de Stael
