216 Quotes by Madame de Stael

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

Life, for me, is living among my friends.

To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.

The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends.

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

If one hour's work is enough to govern France, four minutes is all that is needed for Italy. There is no nation more easily frightened; even its poetic imagination predisposes it to fear, and they look upon power as on an image that fills them with terror.

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

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

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