Madame de Stael
Madame de Stael
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein, commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a French woman of letters of Swiss origin whose lifetime overlapped with the events of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era. She was one of Napoleon's principal opponents. Celebrated for her conversational eloquence, she participated actively in the political and intellectual life of her times. Her works, both critical and fictional, made their mark on the history of European Romanticism...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth22 April 1766
CountryFrance
What is love, if it can calculate and provide against its own decay?
A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.
Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience ...
I must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave.
Anyone who can see as far as tomorrow in politics arouses the wrath of people who can see no farther than today.
One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.
Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.
Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power.
Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them.
Mystery such as is given of God is beyond the power of human penetration, yet not in opposition to it.
How true it is that, sooner or later, the' most rebellious must bow beneath the yoke of misfortune!
Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.
Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness.
Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.