Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French writer Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis

Caroline-Stéphanie-Félicité, Madame de Genlis was a French writer of the late 18th and early 19th century, known for her novels and theories of children's education. She is now best remembered for her journals and the historical perspective they provide on her life and times.

How are we justly to determine in a world where there are no innocent ones to judge the guilty?
If you want to succeed in the world it is necessary, when entering a salon, that your vanity should bow to that of others.
Do not sanction an absurdity. — © Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis
Do not sanction an absurdity.
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds; and these invaluable communications are within the reach of all.
In our lonely hours we awake those sleeping images with which our memories are stored, and vitalize them again.
Sensibility cannot be acquired; people are born thus, or they have it not.
Ah! the spendthrift, love: it gives all and everything with the first sigh!
Homeliness is the best guard of a young girl's virtue.
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