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.
STENDHALIt 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.
More Stendhal Quotes
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The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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A good book is an event in my life.
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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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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.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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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 pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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