Quote by Alfred de Musset

Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation. But inside…

— Alfred de Musset

A lively retrospect summons back to us once more our youth, with vivid reflex of its early joys and unstained pleasures.

— Alfred de Musset

The mouth keeps silent to hear the heart speak.

— Alfred de Musset

The costliest women are the ones who cost nothing.

— Alfred de Musset

“During the wars of the Empire, while husbands and brothers were in Germany, anxious mothers gave birth to an ardent, pale, and neurotic generation.…

— Alfred De Musset

I don't know where my road is going, but I know that I walk better when I hold your hand.

— Alfred de Musset

“As soon as we entered I plunged into the giddy whirl of the waltz. That delightful exercise has always been dear to me; I…

— Alfred De Musset

As all the perfumes of the vanished dayRise from the earth still moistened with the dewSo from my chastened soul beneath thy rayOld love…

— Alfred de Musset

It was one of those somber evenings when the sighing of the wind resembles the moans of a dying man; a storm was brewing,…

— Alfred de Musset

“Your name, merely your name, floods my brain to a point of sweet disgust.”

— Alfred De Musset

Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated.

— Alfred de Musset

How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.

— Alfred de Musset