Creative Quotations from Anne Louise Germaine de Stael (1766-1817)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
(1766-1817) born on Apr 22

French-Swiss woman of letters, political propagandist. She was a respected political propagandist and conversationalist who epitomized the European culture of her time.

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The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

Wit lies in recognising the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	(Attributed.)
R:	"Germany," pt. 3, ch. 8, 1813.
A:	In "Words of Women Quotations for Success," by Power Dynamics Publishing, 1997.
N:	In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
K:	In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997.