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Quotes from Corinne — Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

1766–1817 France

← All quotes by Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

25 quotes

Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry.

Corinne (1807)

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

Corinne (1807)

Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents?

Corinne (1807)

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

Corinne (1807)

The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.

Corinne (1807)

Understanding everything makes one very indulgent.

Corinne (1807)

When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power.

Corinne (1807)

To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that men can contract in this life.

Corinne (1807)

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end: we fancy that we have always possessed what we love, so difficult is it to imagine how we could have lived without it.

Corinne (1807)

O Earth! all bathed with blood and tears, yet never
Hast thou ceased putting forth thy fruit and flowers.

Corinne (1807)

When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness.

Corinne (1807)

Beauty is one in the universe, and, whatever form it assumes, it always arouses a religious feeling in the hearts of mankind.

Corinne (1807)

And all the bustle of departure—sometimes sad, sometimes intoxicating—just as fear or hope may be inspired by the new chances of coming destiny.

Corinne (1807)

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

Corinne (1807)

Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness.

Corinne (1807)

Danger is like wine, it goes to your head.

Corinne (1807)

Where we really love, we often dread more than we desire the solemn moment that exchanges hope for certainty.

Corinne (1807)

Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it.

Corinne (1807)

Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.

Corinne (1807)

Music revives the recollections it would appease.

Corinne (1807)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Anne Louise Germaine de Staël (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.