Quotes by Madame de Staël

The religious life is a struggle, and not a hymn.

— Madame de Staël

I desire no other evidence of the truth of Christianity than the Lord's Prayer.

— Madame de Staël

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

— Madame de Staël

Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, takes from attention its strength, from thought its originality, from feeling its earnestness.

— Madame de Staël

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

— Madame de Staël