Our true passions are selfish.
STENDHALTo describe happiness is to diminish it.
More Stendhal Quotes
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I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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A good book is an event in my life.
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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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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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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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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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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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.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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