Quotes By Stendhal

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

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

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

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

Our true passions are selfish.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

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

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.