Germaine de Staël Quotes

You [America] are the vanguard of the human race. You are the world’s future.

Religion is nothing, if it is not everything; if existence is not filled with it.

All that is natural is varied.

The Influence of Literature upon Society (De la littérature considérée dans ses rapports avec les institutions sociales, 1800), Pt. 2, ch. 4

The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.

Love is the whole history of a woman's life; it is an episode in a man's.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

I must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave.

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness.

When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, deprives attention of its power, thought of its originality, and sentiment of its depth.

O Earth! all bathed with blood and tears, yet never Hast thou ceased putting forth thy fruit and flowers.