Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, ...
GERMAINE DE STAEL We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
GERMAINE DE STAEL When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of imm...
GERMAINE DE STAEL The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
GERMAINE DE STAEL A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
GERMAINE DE STAEL Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things ...
GERMAINE DE STAEL The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it...
GERMAINE DE STAEL The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies G...
GERMAINE DE STAEL Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
GERMAINE DE STAEL When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of i...
GERMAINE DE STAEL The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that i...
ANNE LOUISE GERMAINE DE STAEL Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning...
ANNE LOUISE GERMAINE DE STAEL The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
ANNE LOUISE GERMAINE DE STAEL A happy accident.
MADAME DE STAEL (BARONNE ANNE LOUISE GERMAINE DE STAEL-HOLSTEIN) Strangers are contemporary posterity. [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.]
MADAME DE STAEL (BARONNE ANNE LOUISE GERMAINE DE STAEL-HOLSTEIN) Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning a...
MADAME DE STAEL The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
MADAME DE STAEL Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
MADAME DE STAEL That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself foun...
MADAME DE STAEL Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
MADAME DE STAEL Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are...
MADAME DE STAEL A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
MADAME DE STAEL Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one pr...
MADAME DE STAEL To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
MADAME DE STAEL Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things ...
MADAME DE STAEL Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
MADAME DE STAEL Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
MADAME DE STAEL Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
MADAME DE STAEL The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it...
MADAME DE STAEL Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the check...
MADAME DE STAEL We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
MADAME DE STAEL One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
MADAME DE STAEL Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
MADAME DE STAEL In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
MADAME DE STAEL When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of...
MADAME DE STAEL A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
MADAME DE STAEL Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
MADAME DE STAEL The more I see of men the more I like dogs.
MADAME DE STAEL The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
MADAME DE STAEL The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
MADAME DE STAEL We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.
MADAME DE STAEL The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
MADAME DE STAEL One must chose in life between boredom and suffering.
MME. DE STAEL Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.
MADAME DE STAEL Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts
MADAME DE STAEL Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between things which differ, and the difference between thing...
MADAME DE STAEL The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes
MADAME DE STAEL Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks th...
MADAME DE STAEL One must chose in life between boredom and suffering
MADAME DE STAEL Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays,...
MADAME DE STAEL A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn
MADAME DE STAEL One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering
MADAME DE STAEL In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable
MADAME DE STAEL To understand everything makes one very indulgent
MADAME DE STAEL Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, ...
MADAME DE STAEL The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action
MADAME DE STAEL Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
MADAME DE STAEL The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies G...
MADAME DE STAEL Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
GERMAINE DE STAëL Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
GERMAINE DE STAëL The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor...
GERMAINE GREER Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man wh...
GERMAINE GREER Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a m...
GERMAINE GREER Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yours...
GERMAINE GREER After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called fem...
GERMAINE GREER I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would b...
GERMAINE GREER Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted wo...
GERMAINE GREER Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just...
GERMAINE GREER The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.
GERMAINE GREER All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no socie...
GERMAINE GREER The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated...
GERMAINE GREER All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis u...
GERMAINE GREER Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased...
GERMAINE GREER What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the fema...
GERMAINE GREER We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosio...
GERMAINE GREER The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always...
GERMAINE GREER The only perfect love to be found on earth is not sexual love, which is riddled with hostility and i...
GERMAINE GREER Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray...
GERMAINE GREER Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except f...
GERMAINE GREER Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of li...
GERMAINE GREER There is no such thing as security. There never has been.
GERMAINE GREER Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.
GERMAINE GREER Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy...
GERMAINE GREER It is in our interests to let the police and their employers go on believing that the Underground is...
GERMAINE GREER Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes ...
GERMAINE GREER Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities ...
GERMAINE GREER It is fatally easy for Western folk, who have discarded chastity as a value for themselves, to suppo...
GERMAINE GREER The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution i...
GERMAINE GREER The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people's reproductive behavior, and th...
GERMAINE GREER Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it...
GERMAINE GREER Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of ener...
GERMAINE GREER The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.
GERMAINE GREER You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
GERMAINE GREER Rescuing women from their burden of unwarranted guilt is going to require 'educational practices...
GERMAINE GREER The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being ...
GERMAINE GREER On ladies' nights they watch frozen-faced while their men embrace and fool about commenting to each ...
GERMAINE GREER Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorit...
GERMAINE GREER Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people&#...
GERMAINE GREER Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of li...
GERMAINE GREER Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
GERMAINE GREER The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for...
GERMAINE GREER Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western w...
GERMAINE GREER Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of...
GERMAINE GREER There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They im...
GERMAINE GREER The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.
GERMAINE GREER I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.
GERMAINE GREER Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace an...
GERMAINE GREER A woman might claim to retain some of the child's faculties, although very limited and defused, simp...
GERMAINE GREER Maybe I couldn
GERMAINE GREER Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother.
GERMAINE GREER Mother is the dead heart of the family, spending father's earnings on consumer goods to enhance the ...
GERMAINE GREER The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth
GERMAINE GREER Spontaneity is the quality of being able to do something just because you feel like it at the moment...
GERMAINE GREER Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it ma...
GERMAINE GREER Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
GERMAINE GREER Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.
GERMAINE GREER If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love ...
GERMAINE GREER The essence of pleasure is spontaneity
GERMAINE GREER Loneliness is about the scariest thing there is.
GERMAINE GREER Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes ...
GERMAINE GREER Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is cal...
GERMAINE GREER After thirty years of feminism there is vastly more pornography disseminated more widely than ever b...
GERMAINE GREER . Probably the biggest omission though is the Beatles tour 1964! Undoubtedly there are many more....
GERMAINE GREER Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man wh...
GERMAINE GREER Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution
GERMAINE GREER We would have not moved to a house if Jeanne (Klein) hadn't said it was OK. When I talked to her she...
GERMAINE CHAPPELLE The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.
GERMAINE GREER I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover...
GERMAINE GREER Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combi...
GERMAINE GREER Gymnastics has always been my first love.
MAGGIE GERMAINE It was as if we were playing Manhunt. It was a kind of lethal darts match.
GERMAINE GREER It's also an oxymoron because what we see is not real,
GERMAINE GREER It is fatally easy for Western folk, who have discarded chastity as a value for themselves, to suppo...
GERMAINE GREER Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not bea...
GERMAINE GREER In our society, the pre-adolescent girl, the nubile virgin, the sexually active woman, the mother an...
GERMAINE GREER There have been women in the past far more daring than we would need to be now, who ventured all and...
GERMAINE GREER Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offe...
GERMAINE GREER I think these things are so political you can't trust them at all. It's madness that I am on the lis...
GERMAINE GREER It was as if we were playing Manhunt, ... It was a kind of lethal darts match.
GERMAINE GREER Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.
GERMAINE GREER A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.
GERMAINE GREER You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
GERMAINE GREER If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love ...
GERMAINE GREER I think that testosterone is a rare poison
GERMAINE GREER Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, thou...
GERMAINE GREER There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They im...
GERMAINE GREER Our whole lives are lived in a tangle of telling, not telling, misleading, allowing to know, conceal...
GERMAINE GREER Revolution is the festival of the oppressed
GERMAINE GREER The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it ...
GERMAINE GREER Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming thing...
GERMAINE GREER Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she neve...
GERMAINE GREER Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased...
GERMAINE GREER It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley's proposit...
GERMAINE GREER Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strain...
GERMAINE GREER Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they ha...
GERMAINE GREER Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.
GERMAINE GREER It's absolutely philistine not to recognize what a great book 'An American Dream' is. No...
GERMAINE GREER Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is ...
GERMAINE GREER I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman wou...
GERMAINE GREER It was supposed to be a nice, easy way to make some money. Couple extra bucks. What do I do?
BUD GERMAINE There's legitimate businesses out there, so you've got to figure out what's legitimate and what's no...
BUD GERMAINE Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is self-deprecating; he is ludicrously vainglorious...
GERMAINE GREER I think that testosterone is a rare poison.
GERMAINE GREER The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
GERMAINE GREER Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; foll...
GERMAINE GREER If you think you are emancipated, you might consider the idea of tasting your own menstrual blood - ...
GERMAINE GREER It was just an absolutely exciting experience.
MAGGIE GERMAINE It really is different. You have to figure out how each athlete works in order to get the most out o...
MAGGIE GERMAINE My finger felt really good. I took snaps for the first time and that was one of the things I was won...
JOE GERMAINE To win a game like that on a play like that, there's no better feeling. It was a perfect play.
JOE GERMAINE I'm looking forward to seeing what we can do this year. We've been working hard and hopefully that w...
JOE GERMAINE It was an unbelievable moment. The Rose Bowl is the greatest bowl game there is. It was the greatest...
JOE GERMAINE When Jake scored, it sure took a lot of the wind out of our sails, but we just sort of took a busine...
JOE GERMAINE Excitement. Sadness. I've been there. They're taking it in, not wanting their college careers to end...
JOE GERMAINE Until our own time, history focussed on man the achiever; the higher the achiever the more likely it...
GERMAINE GREER The Poison Maiden has conceived by him, and is plumb ready to enter the divine category of mother, o...
GERMAINE GREER Women made us lose paradise, but how frequently we find it again in their arms
DE FINOD The more I saw of foreign countries the more I loved my own.
DE DELLOY An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
DE CHATEAUBRIAND Peace is a natural effect of trade.
DE MONTESQUIEU If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
DE MONTESQUIEU Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
DE MONTESQUIEU In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also is despotic governments: in the fo...
DE MONTESQUIEU There is a French saying: ''Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.''
DE FINOD We would prefer to see a more expedient transfer of properties and the backlog ? being cleared.
DE RAUVILLE Hope is the gay skylarking pajamas we wear over yesterday's bruises
DE CASSERES There has been softening in share prices after March month end.
DE RAUVILLE To remain virtuous a man has only to combat his own desires; a woman must resist her own inclination...
DE LATENA Most of those children don't have one-tenth of the opportunity my children had, and I don't think th...
DE KNUDSON I am extremely supportive of communities being able to make their own decisions regarding tobacco, a...
DE KNUDSON I believe there are many dysfunctional families in our community. I am particularly concerned about ...
DE KNUDSON Many of the students want to come back tomorrow. My hope is to introduce history to all of the stude...
DE HEARN It was a good education for the students.
DE HEARN We wanted the students to recognize and participate in the unique history of Wall. Students should h...
DE HEARN All bow to virtue, and then walk away
DE FINOD One of the greatest sources of suffering is to have an inborn sense of honor
DE CASSERES How intoxicating is the triumph of beauty, and how right it is to name it queen of the universe! Ho...
DE SURIN It is completely unacceptable how patients are treated by some of the staff and something has to be ...
DE LANGE Indolence is the sleep of the mind. [Fr., L'indolence est le sommeil des esprits.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish. [Fr., Il est difficile d'estimer quelq...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES