It 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.
STENDHALAt a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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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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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Far less envy in America than in France.
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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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.
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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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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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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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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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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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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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The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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