Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
STENDHALWomen are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
More Stendhal Quotes
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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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 difference breeds hatred.
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A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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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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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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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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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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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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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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It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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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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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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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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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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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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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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Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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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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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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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.
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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