People happy in love have an air of intensity.
STENDHALWhen a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
More Stendhal Quotes
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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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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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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I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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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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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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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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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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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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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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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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It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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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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If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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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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Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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