Alphonse De Lamartine

Modesty and dew love the shade.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

It is for truth that God created genius.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Good manners require space and time.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

An artist should have more than two eyes.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Fiction is the microscope of truth.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

History teaches everything, even the future.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Ink is the transcript of thought.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

He, who can create, abhors destruction.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds; we pass away!

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

If they say "you have your last chance to look at the world", I wish that look would from Çamlıca of Istanbul.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny; it…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Soul of the universe, Sire, God, Creator, Lord, I believe in Thee, 'neath all these names: And without having need to hear…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Esteem incites friendship, but not love; the former is the twin brother of Reverence; the latter is the child of Equality.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Yet, in these autumn days when Nature expires, Here, in these veiled scenes, I find more attractions; It is a friend's sad…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

We are earth's children, and life is the same in sap as in blood; all that the earth, our mother, feels and…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,--compassion and enthusiasm. By…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Man, it seems, is not able to bear the languid rest on Nature's bosom, and when the trumpet sounds the signal of…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

The People will not allow themselves to be changed into hogs by the Circes of Atheism. Their souls will flash indignation against…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

The greatness of a popular character is less according to the ratio of his genius than the sympathy he shows with the…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

The loss of a mother is always keenly felt, even if her health be such as to incapacitate her from taking an…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

At twenty every one is republican.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Mystery hovers over all things here below.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Museums are the cemeteries of the arts

— Alphonse De Lamartine

God - but a word invoked to explain the world.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

The most effective coquetry is innocence.

— Alphonse de Lamartine