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.
STENDHALThe 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.
More Stendhal Quotes
-
-
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
STENDHAL -
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
STENDHAL -
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.
STENDHAL -
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
STENDHAL -
Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
STENDHAL -
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
STENDHAL -
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
STENDHAL -
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
STENDHAL -
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
STENDHAL -
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
STENDHAL -
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
STENDHAL -
Our true passions are selfish.
STENDHAL -
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.
STENDHAL -
When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
STENDHAL -
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