Anne Louise Germaine de Staël Quotes
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Pretty women are like sovereigns: one flatters them only through interest.
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
A perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither.
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
The search for the truth is the noblest of occupations, and its publication a duty.
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Love is the whole history of a woman's life; it is but an episode in a man's.
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël