Madame de Stael Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• 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

  Men, Desire, He Man

• I desire no other proof of Christianity than the Lord's Prayer.

  Madame de Stael

  Prayer, Desire, Christianity

• I believe that happiness consists in having a destiny in keeping with our abilities. Our desires are things of the moment, often harmful even to ourselves; but our abilities are permanent, and their demands never cease.

  Madame de Stael

  Happiness, Believe, Destiny

• Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next; superstition is allied to fatality, religion to virtue; it is by the vivacity of earthly desires that we become superstitious; it is, on the contrary, by the sacrifice of these desires that we become religious.

  Madame de Stael

  Religious, Sacrifice, Desire

  "Life of Madame de Staël" by Abel Stevens, (Ch. XXXIV), 1880.

• Conversation as talent exists only in France. In other countries, conversation provides politeness, discussion, and friendship; in France, it is an art for which imagination and soul are certainly very welcome, but which can also provide its own secret remedies to compensate you for the absence of either or both, if you so desire.

  Madame de Stael

  Country, Art, Imagination

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