216 Quotes by Madame de Stael

The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man.

The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.

Where no interest is takes in science, literature and liberal pursuits, mere facts and insignificant criticisms necessarily become the themes of discourse; and minds, strangers alike to activity and meditation, become so limited as to render all intercourse with them at once tasteless and oppressive.

You do not reach the sublime by degrees; the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.

Wit lies in the likeness of things that are different, and in the difference of things that are alike.

Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.

Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.

Gaiety pleases more when we are assured that it does not cover carelessness.

Providence protects us in all the details of our lot.