Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
STENDHALThere is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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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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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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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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The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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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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If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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