black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Stendhal

Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
STENDHAL

Average Feeling Greatness Lady Remark Rich Society Woman
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
STENDHAL

Clever Fear Foundation Religion Smart
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
STENDHAL

Charm Earth Event Present
Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
STENDHAL

Concert Imagination Politics
I see but one rule: to be clear.
STENDHAL

Clear Rule See
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.
STENDHAL

Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
STENDHAL

Coward Enlightenment Heart Ourselves Reading
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
STENDHAL

Beautiful Happiness Promise
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
STENDHAL

Action Freedom Man Pleasure Refusal
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
STENDHAL

Fear Personal Quick Shock Thing
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
STENDHAL

Glory Himself Imagination Noble War
The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
STENDHAL

Brain Fear Live Man Power Regain Religion Virtue Way Young
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
STENDHAL

Face Himself Love Pity Respect Sight
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
STENDHAL

Different Known Mindset True
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.
STENDHAL

Break Character Generosity Life Pride Question Sacrifice Woman
The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
STENDHAL

Beautiful Light Love Sight Speed

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Stendhal Quotes