Madame de Stael Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: April 22, 1766 - July 14, 1817
Birthday: April 22
Death: July 14
[On Russia:] In every way, there is something gigantic about this people: ordinary dimensions have no applications whatever to it. I do not mean by this that true greatness and stability are never met with; but their boldness, their imaginativeness knows no bounds. With them everything is colossal rather than well-proportioned, audacious rather than well-considered, and if they do not attain their goals, it is because they exceed them.
topic: Mean, Greatness, Russia, True Greatness
