Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
MADAME DE STAELThe desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
More Madame de Stael Quotes
-
-
The checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
MADAME DE STAEL -
Speech happens to not be his language.
MADAME DE STAEL -
The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
MADAME DE STAEL -
A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
MADAME DE STAEL -
A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
MADAME DE STAEL -
The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
MADAME DE STAEL -
Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased.
MADAME DE STAEL -
That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
MADAME DE STAEL -
Love is the whole history of a woman’s life, it is but an episode in a man’s.
MADAME DE STAEL -
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
MADAME DE STAEL -
The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
MADAME DE STAEL -
The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
MADAME DE STAEL -
The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.
MADAME DE STAEL -
Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
MADAME DE STAEL -
Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one’s self.
MADAME DE STAEL