Best Alfred de Vigny Quotes
- What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us? Charm
- Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age. Age
- The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas. Funny
- Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you. Been
- Only silence is great; all else is weakness. All
- The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be. Events
- Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction? Assume
- No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human… Crystallized
- We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements. Age
- Oh, I have a habit of letting myself be lectured on the things I know best. I like to see if they are understood in… Best
- I admit that I myself am far from having a complete command of every topic I touch on, but my knowledge of my subject is… Admit
- The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives Doe
- I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use these… Allowed
- To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances; and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those coincidences to which… Always Meant
- The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or… Among
- Hope is the greatest madness. What can we expect of a world that we enter with the assurance of seeing our fathers and mothers die?… Assurance
- What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age. Age