It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
STENDHALIt is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
More Stendhal Quotes
-
-
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
STENDHAL -
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 -
When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
STENDHAL -
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
STENDHAL -
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
STENDHAL -
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
STENDHAL -
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.
STENDHAL -
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
STENDHAL -
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
STENDHAL -
In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
STENDHAL -
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
STENDHAL -
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
STENDHAL -
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
STENDHAL -
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
STENDHAL -
Far less envy in America than in France.
STENDHAL -
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
STENDHAL -
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
STENDHAL -
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
STENDHAL -
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
STENDHAL -
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
STENDHAL -
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
STENDHAL -
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
STENDHAL -
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
STENDHAL -
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
STENDHAL -
This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
STENDHAL -
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
STENDHAL