Stendhal Quotes
- After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
- Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
- Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
- But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
- ...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
- The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
- The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
- Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
- 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…
- Even a very small degree of hope is enough to cause the birth of love.
- This is the curse of our age, that even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
- One can acquire everything insolitude except character.
- At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.