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
Madame de Stael quotes about
Life resembles Gobelin tapestry; you do not see the canvass on the right side; but when you turn it, the threads are visible.
there is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep.
The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.
... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.
Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.
What is love, if it can calculate and provide against its own decay?
Happiness is a wondrous commodity: the more you give, the more you have.
A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.
There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than life itself.
One must, so long as there is any life left, back up the character of one's life.
It is not enough to forgive; one must forget.
No nation has the right to bring about a revolution, even though such a change may be most urgently needed, if the price is the blood of one single innocent individual ...
The thing that must be preserved in all situations whatever is the reputation of one's character.
Why shouldn't man be as angry about not having always been alive as about having to stop being alive?