Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes

Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.

Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.

Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature.

Good manners require space and time.

Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.

Mystery hovers over all things here below.

Void of freedom, what would virtue be?

Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.

Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.

Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.

God has placed the genius of women in their hearts, because the works of this genius are always works of love.

Modesty and dew love the shade.

True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

Kindness is virtue itself.

Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.

All our tastes are but reminiscences.

A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.

We don't have two hearts, one for animals and one for humans ; we have one heart or we don't have any.

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

There is a woman at the begining of all great things.

Argument should be polite as well as logical.

Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore; it rushes on, and carries us with it.

Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.

The most effective coquetry is innocence.

Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.

Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

History teaches everything, even the future.

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.