It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
STENDHALThe ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
More Stendhal Quotes
-
-
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
STENDHAL -
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
STENDHAL -
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
STENDHAL -
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
STENDHAL -
Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
STENDHAL -
Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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 -
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
STENDHAL -
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
STENDHAL -
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
STENDHAL -
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
STENDHAL -
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
STENDHAL -
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
STENDHAL -
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
STENDHAL -
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
STENDHAL