To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. ... there are no age limits for love. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“Mathilde made an effort to use the more intimate form; she was evidently more attentive to this unusual way of speaking than… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“The footman burst in, announcing, 'Monsieur le Duc de ---.' 'Hold your tongue, you fool,' said the Duke as he entered the room. He… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“If you think of paying court to those in power, your eternal ruin is assured.” — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
