Top 71 Quotes & Sayings by Alfred de Musset - Page 2

Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?

Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.

The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer

Disgrace is the synonym of discovery.

Repartee is altogether a natural endowment, and is the lightning of the mind.

I can't help it, the idea of the infinite torments me.

Look at the sun! It’s dry, it’s dead, it needs a drink, it wants blood! And I’ll give it blood!

What a frightful weapon is human thought! It is our defense and our safeguard, the most precious gift that God has made us. It is ours and it obeys us; we may launch it forth into space, but, once outside of our feeble brains, it is gone; we can no longer control it.

Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.

It was one of those somber evenings when the sighing of the wind resembles the moans of a dying man; a storm was brewing, and between the splashes of rain on the windows there was the silence of death. All nature suffers in such moments; the trees writhe in pain and twist their heads; the birds of the fields cower under the bushes; the streets of cities are deserted.

Taxes are a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which is not assessed by fate at its full value!