Alfred De Musset Quotes

With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.

Any cigar smoker is a friend, because I know how he feels.

I don't know where my road is going, but I know that I walk better when I hold your hand.

Life is a sleep, love is a dream; and you have lived if you have loved.

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.

... but one loves, and when one is on the brink of death, one turns around to look backward, and one says to oneself: "I have often suffered, I have sometimes been wrong, but I have loved.

Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.

The only true language in the world is a kiss.

Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits.

The only truth is love beyond reason.

In my flowery dreams there's always you. I do not regret it one bit.

The mouth keeps silent to hear the heart speak.

life is a deep sleep of which love is the dream

How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.

The glass I drink from is not large, but at least it is my own.

Memory is what makes us young or old.

The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer

Doubt, if you will, the being who loves you, Woman or dog, but never doubt love itself.

Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives

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

The heart that once has been your shrine for other loves is too divine

The soft contralto notes of a woman's voice are born in the immediate region of the heart.

Great artists have no country.

Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher.

As all the perfumes of the vanished dayRise from the earth still moistened with the dewSo from my chastened soul beneath thy rayOld love is born anew.

Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering.

The return makes one love the farewell.

I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me.

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.

One must not trifle with love

I have come too late into a world too old.

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

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

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

It is easy to promise, and alas! How easy to forget!

The costliest women are the ones who cost nothing.

The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your back.

Happiness may have but one night, as glory but one day.

The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.

Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.

Repartee is altogether a natural endowment, and is the lightning of the mind.

I deeply wished I could make the stars all come down and breathe them; disappear in them

A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself.

In love matters; keep your pen from paper.

Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.

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

Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated.

The life of a devotee is a crusade of which the heart is the Holy Land.

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

Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?