More Quotes by Stendhal
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.
The more one pleases generally, the less one pleases profoundly.
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
Old age is nothing but the absence of madness, the loss of illusion and passion.
There is nothing so beautiful, lovable and moving as the English countryside.
If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us
What is the use of a love that makes one yawn? One might as well take to religion.
Want of exercise was beginning to affect his health and to give him the weak and excitable character of a young German student.
I cannot provide the reality of events, I can only convey their shadow.
Love is a beautiful flower, but we must be brave enough to pick her up from the edge of a precipice.
