Stendhal Quotes

Nothing is so odious to the mediocre as mental superiority. There lies the source of hatred in the world of today.

Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.

Could anything possibly be more humorous than believing in the depth or in the depravity of the Parisian character?

Les vraies passions sont égoïstes.

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

La vanité piquée peut mener loin un jeune homme riche et dès le berceau toujours environné de flatteurs.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us

I call "crystallization" that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.

Un bon livre est un événement pour moi.

Ce iubire mai e aceea care te face sa casti?

After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.

(Le Centre du Lac) … et le hardi promontoire qui sépare les deux branches du lac, celle de Come, si voluptuense et celle qui court vers Lecco, plein de sévérité; aspect sublime et gracieux, que le site le plus renommé du monde, la baie de Naples, égale, mais ne surpasse point...

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.

Dragostea nu-i fu doar admiratie în fata frumusetii, ci orgoliul ca era a lui.

Ce sera la noblesse de leur style qui, dans quarante ans, rendra illisibles nos écrivains de 1840.