black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Stendhal

Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
STENDHAL

God Help Man Place Youth
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
STENDHAL

Career Divine Offend Pain Vulgur
An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
STENDHAL

Himself Intimate Live Load Play Relate Travel Weapon
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
STENDHAL

Distance Imitation Time
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
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
STENDHAL

Kind Vice Worst
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
STENDHAL

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

Enough History Interest Moral
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
STENDHAL

God Ideas Religion
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
STENDHAL

Difficult Escape Generation Sick
The difference breeds hatred.
STENDHAL

Breed Difference Hate One Liner
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
STENDHAL

Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
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.
STENDHAL

Animal Desire Fashion Greatness Luxury Majority Man Possession Woman Young
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
STENDHAL

Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
STENDHAL

Happiness Intensity Love People
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
STENDHAL

Age Independent Love Quite Willing

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Related Topics

Popular Authors

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Stendhal Quotes