black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

Stendhal

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.
STENDHAL

Emotion Ideas Judgement Life Mistake Public Shock
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
STENDHAL

Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
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.
STENDHAL

Animal Desire Fashion Greatness Luxury Majority Man Possession Woman Young
A good book is an event in my life.
STENDHAL

Book Goodness Life
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
STENDHAL

Kind Vice Worst
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
STENDHAL

Concern Fools Small Thinking
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
STENDHAL

Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
STENDHAL

Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
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.
STENDHAL

Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
STENDHAL

Business Important Life Love Myself Oneself
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
STENDHAL

Hard Soul Winter
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
STENDHAL

Art Escape Logic Science
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.
STENDHAL

Ignorance Impossible Literature Politics Vulgar Work
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
STENDHAL

Love Matter Myself Ourselves
I see but one rule: to be clear.
STENDHAL

Clear Rule See
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
STENDHAL

Enough History Interest Moral

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Stendhal Quotes