black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.

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

Moments Music Phrase Thinking Woman
The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
STENDHAL

Brain Fear Live Man Power Regain Religion Virtue Way Young
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
STENDHAL

Act Follow Intimate Love
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
STENDHAL

Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
STENDHAL

Passion Thinking True
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
STENDHAL

Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
STENDHAL

Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
STENDHAL

Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
STENDHAL

Concern Fools Small Thinking
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
STENDHAL

Close Himself Life Prison Thinking Worst
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
STENDHAL

Absence Class Education Energy Family Love Necessary Struggle Survive
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
STENDHAL

Comparison Death Love Pay Standard Thinking True
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
STENDHAL

Life Regain Short Wasted Time
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
STENDHAL

Difficult Escape Generation Sick
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
STENDHAL

Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
STENDHAL

Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Stendhal Quotes