Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
STENDHALMathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
More Stendhal Quotes
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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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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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 shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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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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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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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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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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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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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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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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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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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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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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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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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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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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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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