When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
STENDHALWounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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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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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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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.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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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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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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