Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
STENDHALLife is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
More Stendhal Quotes
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The difference breeds hatred.
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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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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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A good book is an event in my life.
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The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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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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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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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.
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I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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