Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
[On Napoleon:] One has the impression of an imperious wind blowing about one's ears when one is near that man.
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
Men
Imperious
Napoleon
Blowing
Near
Impression
Ears
Wind
More quotes by Madame de Stael
there is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep.
Madame de Stael
The egotism of woman is always for two.
Madame de Stael
The thing that must be preserved in all situations whatever is the reputation of one's character.
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
The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.
Madame de Stael
Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?
Madame de Stael
Nothing recalls the past like music.
Madame de Stael
That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
Madame de Stael
Providence protects us in all the details of our lot.
Madame de Stael
I must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave.
Madame de Stael
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
Madame de Stael
Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.
Madame de Stael
Love is the history of a woman's life it is an episode in man's. [Fr., L'amour est l'histoire de la vie des femmes c'est un episode dans celle des hommes.]
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
Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
Madame de Stael
I believe that happiness consists in having a destiny in keeping with our abilities. Our desires are things of the moment, often harmful even to ourselves but our abilities are permanent, and their demands never cease.
Madame de Stael
Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.
Madame de Stael
The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.
Madame de Stael
Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman.
Madame de Stael
Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it.
Madame de Stael
