Stendhal Quotes

Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.

Rien au monde n'est beau, admirable, attrendrissant comme les paysages anglais.

Da, domnule, un roman e ca o oglinda purtata de-a lungul unui drum batut de multa lume. El va rasfrange in ochi cand seninul cerului albastru, cand noroiul mocirlelor din cale. Iar pe cel ce poarta povara oglinzii in spate il veti invinovati ca e imoral! Oglinda lui arata noroiul, iar voi invinuiti oglinda! Mai bine ati invinui drumul pe care se afla mocirla si, mai mult inca, pe inspectorul drumurilor, care ingaduie sa zaca apa si sa se formeze mocirla.

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

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

The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love give. I am a man before being a prince, and when I have the good fortune to be in love my mistress addresses a man and not a prince.

But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.

Les Russes copient les moeurs françaises, mais toujours à cinquante ans de distance.

A melancholy air can never be the right thing; what you want is a bored air. If you are melancholy, it must be because you want something, there is something in which you have not succeeded.
It is shewing your inferiority. If you are bored, on the other hand, it is the person who has tried in vain to please you who is inferior.