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.
STENDHALLife is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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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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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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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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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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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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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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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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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 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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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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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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Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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