Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
STENDHALThe 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.
More Stendhal Quotes
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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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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I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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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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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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