Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by Delphine de Girardin

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French writer Delphine de Girardin.

Last updated on April 15, 2025.

Delphine de Girardin, pen name Vicomte Delaunay, was a French author.

French - Writer | January 24, 1804 - June 29, 1855

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Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society.

Delphine de Girardin

To love the one who loves you, To admire the one who admires you, In a word, to be the idol of one's idol, Is exceeding the limit of human joy; It is stealing fire from heaven.

Delphine de Girardin

Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.

Delphine de Girardin

Proof that they do not understand the republic is that in their fine promises for universal suffrage, they forgot women.

Delphine de Girardin

The best religion is the most tolerant.

Delphine de Girardin

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

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Business is other people's money.

Delphine de Girardin

Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls.

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For ages happiness has been represented as a huge precious stone, impossible to find, which people seek for hopelessly. It is not so; happiness is a mosaic, composed of a thousand little stones, which separately and of themselves have little value, but which united with art form a graceful design.

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There is only one proper way to wear a beautiful dress: to forget you are wearing it.

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Infidelity, like death, admits of no degrees.

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Eternal Inner Peace has to be cultivated daily.

Delphine de Girardin

Love with men is not a sentiment, but an idea.

Delphine de Girardin

Treasures are not for youth; at twenty years of age, one does not know how to be rich, or how to be loved.

Delphine de Girardin