Stendhal Quotes

Jamais la mode et le beau n'ont été si loin l'un de l'autre.

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.

La belleza es la promesa de la felicidad

Love of the head has doubtless more intelligence than true love, but it only has moments of enthusiasm. It knows itself too well, it sits in judgement on itself incessantly; far from distracting thought, it is made by sheer force of thought.

What woman alive today would not be horrified to touch the head of her decapitated lover?’ Madame

It was the destiny of Napoleon - would it one day be his?

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

Nebuniile acestea vă miră fără a vă cuceri.

Ljubav je kao groznica: rađa se i nestaje, a da čovjekova volja pri tome nema nikakvog udjela.

Nici nu ar fi numit iubire decat acel sentiment eroic ce se putea intalni in Franta lui Henric al III-lea si Bassompierre, sentiment care nu ceda in fata obstacolelor, ba, departe de asa ceva, dadea nastere unor lucruri marete.

Want of exercise was beginning to affect his health and to give him the weak and excitable character of a young German student.

Posséder n'est rien, c'est jouir qui fait tout.

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.

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

The first virtue of a young man today - that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers - is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.