Marvellous Quote by Stendhal Download Open image “She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?” — Stendhal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Marvellous
“I could picture how Caprice was before we lost her. Dark hair, beautiful smile, intelligent hazel eyes, quick wit. Now gone. Just gone. Like… — Cheyenne McCray Copy Share Image
“Lady Sarah Henbery was his hostess, and the inspired projector of a new scheme of existence (that was, in effect, the repudiation of any… — Bernard Capes Copy Share Image
I began to discover that, in addition to her stunning achievements, there were flaws as there would be in any person's life. I wanted… — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
“Now, I did know a certain young lady of the 'romantic' generation of not so long ago who, after being mysteriously in love for… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I remember being disappointed when Papa had shown me Caravaggio's Judith. She was completely passive while she was sawing through a man's neck. Caravaggio… — Susan Vreeland Copy Share Image
Her beautiful eyes and lips were very grave as she made her choice, and Anthony thought again how naive was her every gesture; she… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She was the kind of elegance That would never tarnish. A mixture of lace and mesh, Like a classic heirloom that begged to be… — M.J. Abraham 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
Rome, believe me, my friend, is like its own Monte Testaceo, Merelya marvellous mass of broken and castaway wine-pots. — Arthur Hugh Clough Copy Share Image
No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
At seventy-three I learned a little about the real structure of animals, plants, birds, fishes and insects. Consequently when I am eighty I'll have… — Hokusai Copy Share Image
As soon as I find myself in the presence of a rich man, I cannot help looking upon him as an exceptional and beautiful… — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
“Nothing like beautiful legs. 'Cause with beautiful legs, even if you've been there only once or twice, there might be something up there besides… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Housman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and so on,… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
Everything... has to be resolved through rhythms. You're constantly massaging each form, trying to get it home, pushing further and further until these all… — Leland Bell Copy Share Image
What was it that drew you back? My marvellous personality, I suppose? Or my sparkling conversation? — Anonymous Copy Share Image