Germaine de Staël Quotes

Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry.

L'amour est l'histoire de la vie des femmes; c'est un épisode dans celle des hommes.

Life often seems like a long shipwreck, of which the débris are friendship, fame, and love.

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

When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness.

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

Tout comprendre rend très-indulgent.

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

The rules are only barriers to keep children from falling.

Danger is like wine, it goes to your head.

If we would succeed in works of the imagination, we must offer a mild morality in the midst of rigid manners; but where the manners are corrupt, we must consistently hold up to view an austere morality.

Un homme doit savoir braver l'opinion; une femme s'y soumettre.

Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.

Ces règles ne sont que des barrières pour empêcher les enfants de tomber.

On cesse de s'aimer si quelqu'un ne nous aime.