Quotes By Stendhal

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

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

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.

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

Our true passions are selfish.

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

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