Germaine De Stael
Anne Louise Germaine de Stal (April 22, 1766 July 14, 1817) was a French-speaking Swiss author living in Paris and abroad who determined literary tastes of Europe at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.
10 Quotes
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
— Germaine 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.
— Germaine De Stael
The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
— Germaine De Stael
The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
— Germaine De Stael
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
— Germaine De Stael
Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
— Germaine De Stael
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
— Germaine De Stael
A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
— Germaine De Stael
Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
— Germaine De Stael
Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
— Germaine De Stael