Forty Quote by Stendhal

Titles are too "thin" for the nineteenth century.

— Henry Ward Beecher

More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross; but it…

— John Hodgman

“When we read Victorian novels, we are often misled into thinking how close that age is to our own; but when we encounter historical…

— John Bowen

The noble style immobilizes its subjects.

— Mason Cooley

It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as we now…

— Evelyn Waugh

When I was in law school I was taught that the great writers were people like [Oliver Wendell] Holmes Jr. and [Benjamin N.] Cardozo.…

— Jeffrey Rosen

Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.

— Honore de Balzac

“Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them.”

— Marcel Proust

There's nobility in hard work, traditional values.

— D. B. Sweeney

“The old nobility was the most irreligious class of society before 1789, and the most pious after 1793 ...”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.

— Boethius

We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer