27 quotes found
Writer · French · 1810–1857
French writer (1810–1857)
“There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words like that are the silver scales of the Tempter’s flaming wings”
“Look at the sun! It’s dry, it’s dead, it needs a drink, it wants blood! And I’ll give it blood!”
“Christianity ruined emperors but saved peoples.”
“As all the perfumes of the vanished dayRise from the earth still moistened with the dewSo from my chastened soul beneath thy rayOld love is born anew.”
“Great artists have no country.”
“Je ne puis;—malgré moi l'infini me tourmente.”
“The apartments of the rich are cabinets of curiosities: a conglomeration of classical antiquity, gothic, renaissance; Louis XIII... Something from every century but our own, a predicament that has ...”