Quotes Stendhal

A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have lov...

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always b...

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cl...

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit....

Friendship has its illusions no less than love....

God's only excuse is that he does not exist....

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love ...

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your etern...

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writer...

Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never ca...

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge....

Love has always been the most important business in my life,...

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness....

Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapon...

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character....

Only great minds can afford a simple style....

Our true passions are selfish....

People happy in love have an air of intensity....

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot...

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it....

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middl...

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness....

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all....

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is ...

The first qualification for a historian is to have no abilit...