Alfred de Vigny Quotes

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I [Nature] am called a mother, but I am a grave.

Alfred de Vigny

Observe this fact: in the history of mankind, every ruler who has lacked personal greatness has been forced to compensate for the deficiency by setting up the executioner at his right hand like a guardian angel.

Alfred de Vigny

In England the theater has never been anything but a fashion for the upper classes or a debauch for the common people.

Alfred de Vigny

A great career is a dream of youth realized in mature age.

Alfred de Vigny

A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

Alfred de Vigny

The press is a mouth forced to be forever open and forever talking. Consequently it says a thousand times that it has nothing to say.

Alfred de Vigny

We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.

Alfred de Vigny

Alfred de Vigny

Alfred de Vigny

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Born: March 27, 1797

Died: September 17, 1863 (aged 66)

Bio: Alfred Victor, Comte de Vigny was a French poet, playwright, and novelist. He was a major figure in the French Romantic movement.

Known for:

Chatterton (1835)
STELLO (1856)
Servitude and grandeur of arms
The Warrior's Life
Cinq Mars (Complete)

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