Best Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes
- Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination. Imagination
- Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every… Citizen
- Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator. Dwells
- The most effective coquetry is innocence. Coquetry
- It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition. Admirable
- Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page by… Abroad
- Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman. Attraction
- Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions. Applause
- The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized. Attractiveness
- Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet. Been
- Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart. Dawn
- Void of freedom, what would virtue be? Freedom
- Republicanism and ignorance are in bitter antagonism. Antagonism
- At twenty every one is republican. Every One
- The People will not allow themselves to be changed into hogs by the Circes of Atheism. Their souls will flash indignation against their transformers. A… Allow
- Death, with funereal shades in vain surrounds me, My reason through his darkness seeth light: 'Tis the last step which brings me close to Thee:… Brings
- Shall not this bygone Eden that we knew In our Eternal Life have shape and hue? For where Time is not shall not all Time… All
- Soul of the universe, Sire, God, Creator, Lord, I believe in Thee, 'neath all these names: And without having need to hear thy word, In… All
- What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful illusions, and shattering… Altar
- What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death? Death
- All nature is the temple; earth the altar. All
- And when night, guiding her bright train of stars, Throws o'er the sleeping world her gloomy veil, Lonely amidst the desert and the darkness, Musing… Amidst
- Utopias are often just premature truths. Funny
- We are earth's children, and life is the same in sap as in blood; all that the earth, our mother, feels and expresses to the… All
- He, who can create, abhors destruction. Abhors