black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I have a bad memory for facts.

Stendhal

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.
STENDHAL

Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
STENDHAL

Concert Imagination Politics
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
STENDHAL

Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
STENDHAL

Enjoyment Himself Idiot Imagination Life Man Sharp
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
STENDHAL

Face Himself Love Pity Respect Sight
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
STENDHAL

Business Important Life Love Myself Oneself
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
STENDHAL

Description Diminish Happiness
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
STENDHAL

Glory Himself Imagination Noble War
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
STENDHAL

Happiness Love Power Source
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
STENDHAL

God Help Man Place Youth
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
STENDHAL

God Ideas Religion
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
STENDHAL

Hard Soul Winter
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
STENDHAL

Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
STENDHAL

Love Matter Myself Ourselves
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.
STENDHAL

Comparison Death Love Pay Standard Thinking True
I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
STENDHAL

Action Crystal Discover Event Mindset

I have a bad memory for facts.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I have a bad memory for facts.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Stendhal Quotes