Alfred de Vigny Quotes

One is always a good master when one isn’t the master

The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper...

I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children ...

To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances; and those circumstances and t...

Those intellectuals are our natural enemies; the only kind who are worth anything are the musicians ...

I admit that I myself am far from having a complete command of every topic I touch on, but my knowle...

Observe this fact: in the history of mankind, every ruler who has lacked personal greatness has been...

Oh, I have a habit of letting myself be lectured on the things I know best. I like to see if they ar...

Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot...

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

Hope is the greatest madness. What can we expect of a world that we enter with the assurance of seei...

Not one little fellow need fear that he will be forbidden to pluck his shining grape from the cluste...

We have also set up for them an edifying project for a continuous mitigation of their own tyranny, a...