Friendship Quote by Stendhal

“Julien felt himself to be strong and resolute like a man who sees clearly into his own heart.”

— Stendhal

“I will never demean myself to speak about my courage," said Julien, coldly, "it would be mean to do so. Let the world judge…

— Stendhal

“The footman burst in, announcing, 'Monsieur le Duc de ---.' 'Hold your tongue, you fool,' said the Duke as he entered the room. He…

— Stendhal

“These gentlemen, although of the highest nobility,' thought Julien, 'are not in the least boring like the people who come to dine with M.…

— Stendhal

“He was not quite eight-and-twenty, still swift and exact in his motions, and possessed of the kind of roguish, unsullied vigor that conveys neither…

— Eleanor Catton

Chélan had acted as imprudently for Julien as he had for himself. He had given him the habit of reasoning correctly, and of not…

— Stendhal

“In the parlance of economics, Julien has said to Pari that if she cut off the supply of attention, perhaps the demands for it…

— Khaled Hosseini

“There is a time in life when a man with a little acting ability is able to deceive even himself.”

— Graham Greene

A man should take to himself no discomfort from an opinion expressed or implied by his adversary, but it is difficult, and oftentimes humiliating…

— Eugene V. Debs

“This explained to me--and I suppose, forgave me--my inability to see the face of this man, because whoever must deceive us in order to…

— Michael Ennis

“His nature was not a suspicious one, and he did not take pleasure, as some men did, in believing himself to have been betrayed.”

— Eleanor Catton

“It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them”

— François de La Rochefoucauld