Books Quote by Stendhal Download Open image “A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.” — Stendhal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Journey Novel
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Ah, Sir, a novel is a mirror carried along a high road. At one moment it reflects to your vision the azure skies, at… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Every road in life is a journey. The rear view mirror is to remind us of where we have been so that we can… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
“If books were roads, some would be made for driving quickly - details are scant, and what details there are appear drab - but… — Peter Mendelsund Copy Share Image
A book very much is the center of the road, so people always can refer back to it. — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
“The road of life is filled with sunshine and clouds, black and white, triumphs and tragedies. As we continue down the road, we decide… — Julie-Anne Copy Share Image
One of the ready advantages of writing a road or quest story is that it mirrors the experience of writing a novel. — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
“You enter a novel as you enter a house of strangers not knowing who you may meet or what might happen. Like a mirror… — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share Image
“Every year, more than 120,000 new books are published in Britain, creating millions of volumes that will never be opened, let alone read. Many… — Anonymous 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
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
