Madame de Stael famous quotes

Enthusiasm signifies God in us.
-- Madame de Stael

#Enthusiasm

The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
-- Madame de Stael

#Learning #Mind #Progress

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
-- Madame de Stael

#Wisdom #Pardon #Grows

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
-- Madame de Stael

#Happiness #Feelings #Action

Who understands much, forgives much.
-- Madame de Stael

#Forgiveness #Forgiving

The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
-- Madame de Stael

#Inspirational Life #Connections #Faults

The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.
-- Madame de Stael

#Funny #Dog #Men

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Madame de Stael

#Famous Love #One Love

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
-- Madame de Stael

#Mistake #Voice #Impossible

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
-- Madame de Stael

#Men #Desire #He Man

Whatever is natural admits of variety.
-- Madame de Stael

#Natural #Variety

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love
-- Madame de Stael

#Love #Death #Hands

Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
-- Madame de Stael

#Happiness #Sweet #Nature

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
-- Madame de Stael

#Broken Heart #Matter #Heart

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
-- Madame de Stael

#Art #Courtesy #Politeness

What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it.
-- Madame de Stael

#Character #What Matters #Matter

Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman.
-- Madame de Stael

#Mind #Firsts #Purity

The face of a woman, whatever be the force or extent of her mind, whatever be the importance of the object she pursues, is always an obstacle or a reason in the story of her life.
-- Madame de Stael

#Mind #Stories #Faces

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
-- Madame de Stael

#Quality #Noble #Genius

Beauty is one in the universe, and, whatever form it assumes, it always arouses a religious feeling in the hearts of mankind.
-- Madame de Stael

#Religious #Heart #Feelings

When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness.
-- Madame de Stael

#Men #Weakness #Hardness

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
-- Madame de Stael

#Men #Public Opinion #Faces

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
-- Madame de Stael

#Greek #Definitions #Enthusiasm

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
-- Madame de Stael

#Age #Firsts #Noble

Love which is only an episode in the life of men, is the entire history of the life of women.
-- Madame de Stael

#Men #Men And Women #Episodes

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 write at all.
-- Madame de Stael

#Writing #Would Be #Genius

Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry.
-- Madame de Stael

#Sunshine #Genius #Perfume

Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness.
-- Madame de Stael

#Atheism #Selfishness #Baseness

Who understands much forgives much. To understand everything makes us very forgiving ...
-- Madame de Stael

#Forgiveness #Understanding #Forgiving

Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant morning of happiness.
-- Madame de Stael

#Morning #Brilliant #Glory

Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it.
-- Madame de Stael

#Mean #Blessing #Winning

Gaiety pleases more when we are assured that it does not cover carelessness.
-- Madame de Stael

#Doe #Please #Carelessness

The egotism of woman is always for two.
-- Madame de Stael

#Two #Egotism

The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends.
-- Madame de Stael

#Men

Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.
-- Madame de Stael

#Education #Spring #Different

The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.
-- Madame de Stael

#Education #Thinking #Mind

Where no interest is takes in science, literature and liberal pursuits, mere facts and insignificant criticisms necessarily become the themes of discourse; and minds, strangers alike to activity and meditation, become so limited as to render all intercourse with them at once tasteless and oppressive.
-- Madame de Stael

#Meditation #Mind #Criticism

If it were not for respect for human opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for the first time, whilst I would go five hundred leagues to talk with a man of genius whom I had not seen.
-- Madame de Stael

#Men #League #Genius

The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music which one hears for one's good as one approaches it. [Fr., La vue d'un tel monument est comme une musique continuelle et fixee qui vous attend pour vous faire du bien quand vous vous en approchez.]
-- Madame de Stael

#Sight #Architecture #Approach

It is difficult to grow old gracefully.
-- Madame de Stael

#Age #Difficult #Grows

Conscience is doubtless sufficient to conduct the coldest character into the road of virtue; but enthusiasm is to conscience what honor is to duty; there is in us a superfluity of soul, which it is sweet to consecrate to the beautiful when the good has been accomplished.
-- Madame de Stael

#Beautiful #Sweet #Character

Danger is like wine, it goes to your head.
-- Madame de Stael

#Wine #Danger

The universe is in France; outside it, there is nothing.
-- Madame de Stael

#France #Universe

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
-- Madame de Stael

#Past #Precedent

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
-- Madame de Stael

#Religious #Struggle #Hymns

The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.
-- Madame de Stael

#Love #Heart #Mind

Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.
-- Madame de Stael

#Love #Heart #Mind

When at eve, at the bounding of the landscape, the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizon an asylum of hope, - a native land of love; and nature seems silently to repeat that man is immortal.
-- Madame de Stael

#Love #Men #Land