Delphine de Girardin famous quotes

03-28-2025

To love the one who loves you, To admire the one who admires you, In a word, to be the idol of one's idol, Is exceeding the limit of human joy; It is stealing fire from heaven.
-- Delphine de Girardin

#Love You #Fire #Idols
For ages happiness has been represented as a huge precious stone, impossible to find, which people seek for hopelessly. It is not so; happiness is a mosaic, composed of a thousand little stones, which separately and of themselves have little value, but which united with art form a graceful design.
-- Delphine de Girardin

#Happiness #Art #People
Business is other people's money.
-- Delphine de Girardin

#Money #People
The best religion is the most tolerant.
-- Delphine de Girardin
Infidelity, like death, admits of no degrees.
-- Delphine de Girardin

#Infidelity #Degrees
Proof that they do not understand the republic is that in their fine promises for universal suffrage, they forgot women.
-- Delphine de Girardin

#Promise #Republic #Fine
Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society.
-- Delphine de Girardin

#Jealous #Responsibility #Men
There is only one proper way to wear a beautiful dress: to forget you are wearing it.
-- Delphine de Girardin

#Beautiful #Women #Clothes
Eternal Inner Peace has to be cultivated daily.
-- Delphine de Girardin

#Inner Peace #Eternal
Love with men is not a sentiment, but an idea.
-- Delphine de Girardin

#Love #Men #Ideas
Instinct is the nose of the mind.
-- Delphine de Girardin

#Intuition #Mind #Noses
Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls.
-- Delphine de Girardin

#Soul #Merit #Noble
Treasures are not for youth; at twenty years of age, one does not know how to be rich, or how to be loved.
-- Delphine de Girardin

#Years #Age #Twenties

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