What did Madame de Stael mean by: There is no second country for an Englishman, except a ship and the sea. - Madame de Stael Writer · France Copy
+ Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents? Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Madame de Stael, Feminism, Talent, 0 - Madame de Stael Writer · France
+ One must, in one’s life, make a choice between boredom and suffering. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Madame de Stael, Boredom, Choices, Suffering, 0 - Madame de Stael Writer · France
+ Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Madame de Stael, Contemplation, Form, Genius, 0 - Madame de Stael Writer · France
+ We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Madame de Stael, Death, Hands, Love, 0 - Madame de Stael Writer · France
+ Kindness and generosity … form the true morality of human actions. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Madame de Stael, Generosity, Kindness, Morality, 0 - Madame de Stael Writer · France
+ Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Madame de Stael, Self, Sensitive, 0 - Madame de Stael Writer · France
+ The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Madame de Stael, Different, 0 - Madame de Stael Writer · France
+ One must, so long as there is any life left, back up the character of one’s life. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Madame de Stael, Character, Left, 0 - Madame de Stael Writer · France
The rumble of the life outside was like the sound of the sea which was rising gradually around her. - Jean Rhys Writer · Dominica
Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country. - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Poet · France
The sea and wind can at the same time convey my neighbour’s vessel and my own. - Jean-Baptiste Say Economist · France
The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier. - Jean-Michel Basquiat Painter
Wherever love is, I want to be, I will follow it as surely as the land-locked salmon finds the sea. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
…I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude. - Jeanne Moreau Actress · France
This is not a time to back away from the principles that this country was founded on. - Jeff Bingaman