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Stendhal
French
Writer
About the author
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
Stendhal,
French
Writer
#Weapons
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
Stendhal,
French
Writer
#Work
#Literary
#Politics
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
Stendhal,
French
Writer
#Pleasure
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
Stendhal,
French
Writer
#People
#Reading
#Pleasure
#Horror
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
Stendhal,
French
Writer
#Love
#People
Our true passions are selfish.
Stendhal,
French
Writer
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
Stendhal,
French
Writer
#Style
If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
Stendhal,
French
Writer
#Love
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
Stendhal,
French
Writer
#Nothing
#Fashion
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
Stendhal,
French
Writer
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
Stendhal,
French
Writer
#Mathematics
#Hypocrisy
Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.
Stendhal,
French
Writer
#Life
#Love
#Business
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
Stendhal,
French
Writer
#Art
#Logic
#Science
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
Stendhal,
French
Writer
#Now
#Style
#Will
#Years
#Writers
#Nobility
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
Stendhal,
French
Writer
#Power
#Men
#Ruin
#Court
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
Stendhal,
French
Writer
#Character
#Solitude
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
Stendhal,
French
Writer
#Love
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
Stendhal,
French
Writer
#Women
#Emotion
What is really beautiful must always be true.
Stendhal,
French
Writer
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
Stendhal,
French
Writer
#Love
#Death
#Thought
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
Stendhal,
French
Writer
#Happiness
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
Stendhal,
French
Writer
#Time
#Respect
#Man
#First
#Pity
#Sight
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
Stendhal,
French
Writer
#Age
#Cure
#Boredom
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
Stendhal,
French
Writer
#Love
#First
#Power
#Happiness
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
Stendhal,
French
Writer
#Years
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
Stendhal,
French
Writer
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
Stendhal,
French
Writer
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
Stendhal,
French
Writer
#Love
#Will
#Habit
#Argument
#Race
#Music
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
Stendhal,
French
Writer
#Work
#Will
#Art
#Man
#Hell
#Genius
#Joy
#Water
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.
Stendhal,
French
Writer
#Man
#Men
#Luxury
#Woman
#Desire
#France
#Majority
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
Stendhal,
French
Writer
#Earth
#Present
#Race
#Events
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
Stendhal,
French
Writer
#Ability
#First
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
Stendhal,
French
Writer
#Love
#Hope
#Future
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
Stendhal,
French
Writer
#Sheep
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
Stendhal,
French
Writer
#Road
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
Stendhal,
French
Writer
#Time
#Life
#Waste
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
Stendhal,
French
Writer
#Light
#Woman
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
Stendhal,
French
Writer
#Youth
#Men
#Woman
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
Stendhal,
French
Writer
#Love
#Hope
#Cause
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
Stendhal,
French
Writer
#Woman
#Happiness
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
Stendhal,
French
Writer
#Fear
#Cleverness
Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.
Stendhal,
French
Writer
#America
#France
#Wit
#Envy
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
Stendhal,
French
Writer
#Love
#Friendship
God's only excuse is that he does not exist.
Stendhal,
French
Writer
#God