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
Rarely
Sensitive
Cause
Causes
Others
Insensitivity
Self
Spare
Love
Spares
Sympathy
More quotes by Madame de Stael
Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.
Madame de Stael
The thing that must be preserved in all situations whatever is the reputation of one's character.
Madame de Stael
Who understands much, forgives much.
Madame de Stael
Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.
Madame de Stael
It is not enough to forgive one must forget.
Madame de Stael
And all the bustle of departure - sometimes sad, sometimes intoxicating - just as fear or hope may be inspired by the new chances of coming destiny.
Madame de Stael
We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love
Madame de Stael
there is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep.
Madame de Stael
I learn life from the poets.
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
Prayer is the life of the soul.
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
The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.
Madame de Stael
Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant morning of happiness.
Madame de Stael
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
Madame de Stael
Whatever is natural admits of variety.
Madame de Stael
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
Madame de Stael
You do not reach the sublime by degrees the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.
Madame de Stael
Unhappy love freezes all our affections: our own souls grow inexplicable to us. More than we gained while we were happy we lose by the reverse.
Madame de Stael
The egotism of woman is always for two.
Madame de Stael
