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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
— Stendhal
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
— Stendhal
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
— Stendhal
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
— Stendhal
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
— Stendhal
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
— Stendhal
To the Happy Few!
— Stendhal
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
— Stendhal
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
— Stendhal
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
— Stendhal
Biographers know nothing about the intimate sex lives of their own wives, but they think they know all about Stendhal's or Faulkner's.
— Milan Kundera
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's proclamations.
— Stendhal
Has he written to you?'
'He writes frequently.'
'Shew me his letters this instant, I order you'; and M. de Renal added six feet to his stature. — Stendhal
'He writes frequently.'
'Shew me his letters this instant, I order you'; and M. de Renal added six feet to his stature. — Stendhal
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
— Stendhal
The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
— Stendhal
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
— Stendhal
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
— Stendhal
According to Stendhal it takes about a year and a month to fall in love, all being well.
— Helen Oyeyemi
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
— Stendhal
Love is a beautiful flower, but we must be brave enough to pick her up from the edge of a precipice.
— Stendhal
It is something like love at first sight. An instant reveals to you what your heart had needed for a long time without recognizing it.
— Stendhal
Your water does not refresh me, said the thirsty genie. Yet it is the coolest well in all the Diar Bekir.
— Stendhal
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
— Stendhal
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
— Stendhal
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
— Stendhal
In Paris, love is born of fiction.
— Stendhal
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
— Stendhal
Want of exercise was beginning to affect his health and to give him the weak and excitable character of a young German student.
— Stendhal
Stendhal had said a Frenchman was an Italian in a bad mood.
— Edmund White
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
— Stendhal
Alas! our frailty is the cause, not we! For such as we are made of, such we be. Twelfth Night It
— Stendhal
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
— Stendhal
Prestige! Sir, is it nothing? To be revered by fools, gaped at by children, envied by the rich and scorned by the wise.
— Stendhal
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
— Stendhal
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
— Stendhal
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
— Stendhal
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
— Stendhal
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
— Stendhal
Could anything possibly be more humorous than believing in the depth or in the depravity of the Parisian character?
— Stendhal
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
— Stendhal
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
— Stendhal
I see but one rule: to be clear.
— Stendhal
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
— Stendhal
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
— Stendhal
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
— Stendhal
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
— Stendhal
I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.
— Francoise Sagan
Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
— Stendhal
I have a bad memory for facts.
— Stendhal