Alphonse de Lamartine famous quotes

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Travel #Istanbul #Cities

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Love #Inspirational #Spiritual

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Funny #Dog #People

Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Love #Farewell #Missing

Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Love #Heart #Dawn

If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Mean #Greatness #Men

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Death #Pain #Grief

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Animal #Differences #Brutality

The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of o­ne spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Spiritual #Greatness #Men

If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad? The most famous men created arms, laws, and empires only. They founded, if anything at all, no more than material powers which often crumbled away before their eyes. This man moved not only armies, legislations, empires, peoples, dynasties, but millions of men in one-third of the then inhabited world; and more than that, he moved the altars, the gods, the religions, the ideas, the beliefs and the souls.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Eye #Mean #Army

There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Love #Emo Love #Great Things

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Music #Heart #Literature

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Nature #Men #Heaven

Utopias are often just premature truths.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Utopia

Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Heart #Lips #Eloquence

Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Radicalism #Logic #Desperation

Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and most inexplicable; they are of instinct and not of reason.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Mind #Religion #Logic

Modesty and dew love the shade.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Retirement #Dew #Shade

Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Beauty #Female #Faces

True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Greatness #Sovereign #Virtue

Enthusiasm springs from the imagination, and self-sacrifice from the heart. Women are, therefore, more naturally heroic than men. All nations have in their annals some of these miracles of patriotism, of which woman is the instrument in the hands of God.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Spring #Heart #Sacrifice

The most effective coquetry is innocence.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Coquetry #Innocence

Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Two #Silence #Simplicity

Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Real #Silence #Applause

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 eye by her form and aspect, in melancholy or in splendor, finds an echo within us.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Mother #Children #Eye

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 his altar?
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Happiness #Joy #Storm

Too much I've seen, and felt, and lov'd in life, Living I come to seek Lethaean calm; Let me, fair scenes! forget all worldly strife, Oblivion solely is my bosom's balm.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Too Much #Calm #Forget

Hence life, as through a cloud, for me I see Vanish, and to the past's dark shade 'tis chas'd; As a grand image love remains to me-- Sole remnant of a dream, by morn effac'd.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Dream #Dark #Past

He, who can create, abhors destruction.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Destruction

I love the people because I believe in God. For, if I did not believe in God, what would the people be to me? I should enjoy at ease that lucky throw of the dice, which chance had turned up for me, the day of my birth; and, with a secret, savage joy, I should say, "So much the worse for the losers!--the world is a lottery. Woe to the conquered!
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Believe #People #Joy

Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Giving #Chance #Should

Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men; hence, fancy often allures them.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Heart #Men #Imagination

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Passion #Tire

There is a name hidden in the shadow of my soul, where I read it night and day and no other eye sees it.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Sweet #Eye #Night

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Wise #Men #Prophecy

Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Ends #Treason #Betray

Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Time #Ocean #Overflow

My dog! the difference between thee and me knows only our Creator.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Dog #Differences #Thee

Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Women #Men #Affection

After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Men #Blood #Giving

Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Reality #Virgins #Virginity

Unanimity is the mistress of strength.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Mistress

Man, man, is thy brother, and thy father is God.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Brother #Father #Men

Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Dream #Morning #Poetry

Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Men #Crucible #Sorrow

Love of country produces among men such examples as Cincinnatus, Alfred, Washington--pure, unselfish, symmetrical; among women, Vittoria Colonna, Madame Roland, Charlotte Corday, Jeanne Darc--romantic, devoted, marvelous.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Country #Men #Patriotism

All our tastes are but reminiscences.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Taste

The loss of a mother is always keenly felt, even if her health be such as to incapacitate her from taking an active part in the care of the family. She is the sweet rallying-point for affection, obedience, and a thousand tendernesses. Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Mother #Sweet #Loss

True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Love #Fruit #Lifetime

Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Angel #Poetry #Humanity

Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Civilization #Excess #Barbarism

Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Men #Beast #Born

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

#Brother #Children #Twins

Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#War #Civil War

Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Life Is Too Short #Passion #Evil

Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Martyr

An artist should have more than two eyes.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Art #Eye #Two

Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Hours #Passing #Enjoy

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 page. Thought will spread abroad with the rapidity of light--instantly conceived, instantly written, instantly understood at the extremities of the earth.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Running #Book #Writing

Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Beautiful #One Day #Delight

Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Philosophy #Expression #Genius

Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Hero #Ignorance #Long

Good manners require space and time.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Space #Good Man #Manners

Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore; it rushes on, and carries us with it.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Men #Hours #Harbors

The greatness of a popular character is less according to the ratio of his genius than the sympathy he shows with the prejudices and even the absurdities of his time. Fanatics do not select the cleverest but the most fanatical leaders as was evidenced in the choice of Robespierre by the French Jacobins, and in that of Cromwell by the English Puritans.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Character #Greatness #Choices

Mystery hovers over all things here below.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Mystery

Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Flames #Joy #Alive

Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,--compassion and enthusiasm. By compassion, they devote themselves; by enthusiasm they exalt themselves.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Women #Compassion #Two

History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#History #Biographies #Scales

A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Gentleness

The death of a man's wife is like cutting down an ancient oak that has long shaded the family mansion. Henceforth the glare of the world, with its cares and vicissitudes falls upon the old widower's heart, and there is nothing to break their force, or shield him from the full weight of misfortune. It is as if his right hand were withered; as if one wing of his angel was broken, and every movement that he made brought him to the ground.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Fall #Angel #Heart

Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Enthusiasm #Intoxication #Earnestness

The reason that women are so much more sociable than men is because they act more from the heart than the intellect.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Heart #Men #Emotion

It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Heart #Long #Rose

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#God #Judging #Court

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Moving #People #Feels

We don't have two hearts, one for animals and one for humans ; we have one heart or we don't have any.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Heart #Animal #Two

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

#Istanbul #Wish #Looks

When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Dog #Laughing #Reason

I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Country #Truth #Thinking

If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Brother #Father #Community

Argument should be polite as well as logical.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Argument #Logical #Should

Man is God by his faculty for thought.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Men #Divinity #Faculty

Fiction is the microscope of truth.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Fiction #Microscopes

Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Literature #Newspapers

...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Animal #Purpose #Flesh

Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Iron #Habit

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

#Details #Affair #Providence

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

#Time #Men #Heaven

Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless, Be happy while you may!
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Time #Heartless #May

History teaches everything, even the future.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#History #Teach

Kindness is virtue itself.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Kindness #Virtue

We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the latter there is no difference but in the victim.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Heart #Men #Animal

Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace....
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Friendship #Sweet #Heart

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Hero #Race #Firefighter

It is for truth that God created genius.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Genius

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Imagination #Sentiments

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 being that thinks; my country is Truth.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Country #Truth #Reading

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 the sky's brow my glorious creed I trace.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#God #Believe #Names

All nature is the temple; earth the altar.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Nature #Earth #Temples