Stendhal Quotes

Il n’y a point de droit naturel: ce mot n'est qu’une antique niaiserie... Avant la loi il n’y a de naturel que la force du lion, ou le besoin de l’être qui a faim, qui a froid, le besoin en un mot.

Mutluluğu uzaklarda aramaya kalkmanın ne anlamı var, işte burada, elimin altında!

Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.

It seemed to Julian that there was far too much hair in his wig.

This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins; it is a step towards protestantism.

A good book is an event in my life.

Jamais il ne s'était trouvé aussi près de ces terribles instruments de l'artillerie féminine.

What is really beautiful must always be true.

When one has just seen the woman one loves, the sight of every other woman damages the vision and physically hurts the eyes;

his fine and tender eyes filled her with terror. They seemed at times to be gazing into heaven and reflecting the bliss that they saw there. A moment later, one read in them the torments of the damned.

Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

Pendants have for two thousand years reiterated the notion that women have a more lively spirit, men more solidity; that women have more delicacy in their ideas and men greater power of attention. A Paris idler who once took a walk in the Versailles Gardens concluded that, judging from all he saw, the trees grow ready trimmed.

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

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

Le mauvais goût mène au crime.