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.
STENDHALLife is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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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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Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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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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Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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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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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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