Spring appears and we are once more children.
STENDHALPeople 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.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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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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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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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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I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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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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In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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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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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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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 tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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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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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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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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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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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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Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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