It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
STENDHALWhen a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
More Stendhal Quotes
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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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.
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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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