Madame de Stael Quotes About Opinions

Quotes about: Opinions

• A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

  Madame de Stael

  Men, Public Opinion, Faces

  "Delphine". Book by Madame de Stael, 1802.

• If it were not for respect for human opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for the first time, whilst I would go five hundred leagues to talk with a man of genius whom I had not seen.

  Madame de Stael

  Men, League, Genius

• The only equitable manner in my opinion, of judging the character of a man is to examine if there are personal calculations in his conduct; if there are not, we may blame his manner of judging, but we are not the less bound to esteem him.

  Madame de Stael

  Character, Men, Judging

• What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it.

  Madame de Stael

  Character, What Matters, Matter

• Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men; it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea of the moral world.

  Madame de Stael

  Love, Men, Flames

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