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
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
More Stendhal Quotes
-
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 -
Our true passions are selfish.
STENDHAL -
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
STENDHAL -
I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
STENDHAL -
Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
STENDHAL -
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
STENDHAL -
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
STENDHAL -
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
STENDHAL -
One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
STENDHAL -
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.
STENDHAL -
Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
STENDHAL -
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
STENDHAL -
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
STENDHAL -
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
STENDHAL -
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
STENDHAL -
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
STENDHAL