Alfred de Musset Quotes

Look at the sun! It’s dry, it’s dead, it needs a drink, it wants blood! And I’ll give it blood!

There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words...

Hast thou found out, Voltaire, that it is bliss to die, And does thy hideous smile over thy bleached...

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometime...

Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives

Christianity ruined emperors but saved peoples.

One must not trifle with love.

Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realitie...

Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.

Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the...

You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own...

Perfection does not exist. To understand this is the triumph of human intelligence to expect to pos...

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest