A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
STENDHALThe pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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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.
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Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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