Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
STENDHALShe had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
More Stendhal Quotes
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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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.
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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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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.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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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.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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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.
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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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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.
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Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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