Words matter. These are the best Stendhal Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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.
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.
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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.
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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.
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
What is really beautiful must always be true.
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
