Best Madame de Stael Sayings
- O Earth! all bathed with blood and years, yet never / Hast thou ceased putting forth thy fruit and flowers. All
- Music revives the recollections it would appease. Appease
- Whatever is natural admits of variety. Admits
- I learn life from the poets. From
- To live beneath sorrow, one must yield to it. Beneath
- Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not to… All
- The most careful reasoning characters are very often the most easily abashed. Abashed
- And all the bustle of departure - sometimes sad, sometimes intoxicating - just as fear or hope may be inspired by the new chances of… All
- Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents? Bent
- Be happy, but be happy through piety. Happiness
- Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next; superstition is allied to fatality, religion to virtue; it is by the vivacity of earthly… Allied
- Truth and, by consequence, liberty, will always be the chief power of honest men. Chief
- The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement. Either morality is a fable, or… Arising
- If we would succeed in works of the imagination, we must offer a mild morality in the midst of rigid manners; but where the manners… Austere
- It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths; and that the… Based
- Madame de Staël thought it was pride in mankind to endeavour to penetrate the secret of the universe; and speaking of the higher metaphysics she… All
- Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, deprives attention of its power, thought of its originality, and sentiment of its depth. Appears
- When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power. Been
- You do not reach the sublime by degrees; the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite. Beautiful
- When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness. Hardness
- Beauty is one in the universe, and, whatever form it assumes, it always arouses a religious feeling in the hearts of mankind. Arouses
- Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry. Blend
- Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness. Atheism
- Danger is like wine, it goes to your head. Danger
- Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater… Goes
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