Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
STENDHALA novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
More Stendhal Quotes
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Our true passions are selfish.
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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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Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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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.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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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.
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War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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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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