65 Quotes by Alfred de Vigny

What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.

Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.

Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.

Honour is manly decency. The shame of being found wanting in it means everything to us. Is this, then, the indefinable, the sacred thing?

The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.

Poetry is the disease of the brain.

The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.

Only silence is great; all else is weakness.

What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?