Madame de Staël Quotes
1766 – 1817
French-Swiss writer and salon hostess, author of "Corinne".
26 quotes
“Love is the whole history of a woman's life; it is an episode in a man's.”
“Either morality is a fable, or the more enlightened we are, the more attached to it we become.”
“A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.”
“Life often seems like a long shipwreck, of which the débris are friendship, fame, and love.”
“When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power.”
“When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness.”
“Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.”
“Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness.”
“Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry.”
“Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents?”
“Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.”
“Religion is nothing, if it is not everything; if existence is not filled with it.”
“The search for the truth is the noblest of occupations, and its publication a duty.”
