Alfred de Musset Quotes
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Any cigar smoker is a friend, because I know how he feels.
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Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest.
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Happiness may have but one night, as glory but one day.
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Doubt, if you will, the being who loves you, Woman or dog, but never doubt love itself.
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Repartee is altogether a natural endowment, and is the lightning of the mind.
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I have come too late into a world too old.
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Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.
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One must not trifle with love.
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Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.
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The life of a devotee is a crusade of which the heart is the Holy Land.
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If you are weak, dependent upon others, inclined to allow yourself to be dominated by opinion, to take root wherever you see a little soil, make for yourself a shield that will resist everything, for if you yield to your weaker nature you will not grow, you will dry up like a dead plant, and you will bear neither fruit nor flowers.
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How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.
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Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?
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The costliest women are the ones who cost nothing.
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I deeply wished I could make the stars all come down and breathe them; disappear in them.
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Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives.
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I don't know where my road is going, but I know that I walk better when I hold your hand.
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You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. You’re alone, so you think it’s a vast, magnificent panorama. You haven’t sounded the depths. You simply believe in the beauty of God’s creation. But I have spent all this time in the water, diving deep into the howling ocean of life, deeper than anyone. While you were admiring the surface, I saw the shipwrecks, the drowned bodies, the monsters of the deep.
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Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.
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Taxes are a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which is not assessed by fate at its full value!
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What I need is a woman who is something, anything: either very beautiful or very kind or in the last resort very wicked; very witty or very stupid, but something.
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With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.
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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.
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Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.