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.
STENDHALIt 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.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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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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Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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