Quotes by Madame de Stael

Madame de Stael

… 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.

Admirer

Mind

Profound

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[Moralistic] novels are at the same disadvantage as teachers: children never believe them, because they make everything that happens relate to the lesson at hand.

Believe

Children

Teacher

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[On Italian:] One may almost call it a language that talks of itself, and always seems more witty than its speakers.

Italian

May

Witty

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[On Napoleon:] One has the impression of an imperious wind blowing about one’s ears when one is near that man.

Ears

Men

Wind Blowing

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[On Russia:] In every way, there is something gigantic about this people: ordinary dimensions have no applications whatever to it. I do not mean by this that true greatness and stability are never met with; but their boldness, their imaginativeness knows no bounds. With them everything is colossal rather than well-proportioned, audacious rather than well-considered, and if they do not attain their goals, it is because they exceed them.

Greatness

Mean

Russia

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[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought … It soils the hope of youth. Only shameless vice is above its reach.

Believe

Feelings

Laughing

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[The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness.

Energy

Europe

Rudeness

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[To Bonaparte, when asked why she meddled in politics:] Sire, when women have their heads cut off, it is but just they should know the reason.

Cutting

Politics

Reason

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A Gothic building engenders true religion … The light, falling through colored glass, the singular forms of the architecture, unite to give a silent image of that infinite mystery which the soul for ever feels, and never comprehends.

Fall

Glasses

Light

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

Faces

Men

Public Opinion

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