Madame de Stael Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“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