Stendhal Quotes, Thoughts and images

Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.

Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.

The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.

I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.

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

I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.

When you want to court a woman, court her sister first

Women prefer emotions to reasoning.

If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.

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

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

I see but one rule: to be clear.

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

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

Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.

A good book is an event in my life.

Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.

What is really beautiful must always be true.

Every true passion thinks only of itself.

The difference breeds hatred.

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

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.

Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.

Spring appears and we are once more children.

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

There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world