Alphonse De Lamartine

French Poet, Statesman, Historian

Lived from: 1790-1869

Quotes: Alphonse De Lamartine

Quotes 1 till 15 of 16.

1 2 Next

Alphonse De Lamartine

- +

0

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
Alphonse de Lamartine

- +

0

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
Alphonse De Lamartine

- +

0

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
Alphonse De Lamartine

- +

0

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
Alphonse De Lamartine

- +

0

Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
Alphonse De Lamartine

- +

0

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
Alphonse De Lamartine

- +

0

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
Alphonse De Lamartine

- +

0

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
Alphonse De Lamartine

- +

0

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
Alphonse De Lamartine

- +

0

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
Alphonse De Lamartine

- +

0

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
Alphonse De Lamartine

- +

0

Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.
Alphonse de Lamartine

- +

0

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
Alphonse De Lamartine

- +

0

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.
Alphonse de Lamartine

- +

0

There is a woman at the begining of all great things.