All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
STENDHALFriendship has its illusions no less than love.
More Stendhal Quotes
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It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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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.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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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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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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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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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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The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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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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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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