Madame de Staël idézet
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Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein báróné, Madame de Staël korának egyik leghíresebb francia írónője. Wikipedia  

✵ 22. április 1766 – 14. július 1817   •   Más nevek Anna Louise Germaine De Stael-Holstein, Anne-Louise-Germaine Staël, Anna Louise Germaine De Stael-Holsteinov, Анна-Луиза Жермена де Сталь
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Madame de Staël: Idézetek angolul

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

Bk. 13, ch. 4, as translated by Letitia Elizabeth Landon for Isabel Hill (1833)
Corinne (1807)

“All that is natural is varied.”

Tout ce qui est naturel est varié.
Bk. 1, ch. 4
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.”

La vue d'un tel monument est comme une musique continuelle et fixée, qui vous attend pour vous faire du bien quand vous vous en approchez.
Bk. 4, ch. 3
The idea that "architecture is frozen music" — an aphorism of disputed origin sometimes misattributed to de Staël — is found in a number of German writers of the period.
Corinne (1807)

“We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.”

On cesse de s'aimer si quelqu'un ne nous aime.
Sophie, or The Secret Sentiments (Sophie, ou les sentiments secrets, 1790), Act 2, sc. 8

“The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.”

Probably a paraphrase of this line from De l’Allemagne, Pt. 3. ch. 10. "Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line." Not known from Goethe's works.
Misattributed

“The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.”

Sometimes published as an anonymous saying, this was attributed to Bishop Samuel Wilberforce in Is It Nothing To You? Social Purity, A Grave Moral Question (1884) by Henry Rowley, p. 88; to Samuel Taylor Coleridge in "Would You Be Re-elected", Munsey's Magazine (April 1909), p. 769; and to de Staël in Aspects of Western Civilization : Problems and Sources in History (2003), p. 294
Disputed

“Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.”

L'esprit consiste à connaître la ressemblance des choses diverses et la différence des choses semblables.
Pt. 3, ch. 8
De l’Allemagne [Germany] (1813)

“Danger is like wine, it goes to your head.”

Bk. 12, ch. 2
Corinne (1807)

“The admiration of the beautiful always has relation to the Divinity.”

Pt. 4, ch. 1
De l’Allemagne [Germany] (1813)
Eredeti: (fr) L'admiration pour le beau se rapporte toujours à la Divinité.

“Religion is nothing, if it is not everything; if existence is not filled with it.”

Pt. 4, ch. 1
De l’Allemagne [Germany] (1813)
Eredeti: (fr) La religion n'est rien si elle n'est pas tout, si l'existence n'en est pas remplie.