Stendhal Quotes

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

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

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

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

Spring appears and we are once more children.

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

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.

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

The difference breeds hatred.

Every true passion thinks only of itself.

What is really beautiful must always be true.

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

A good book is an event in my life.

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

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

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

I see but one rule: to be clear.

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

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

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

Women prefer emotions to reasoning.

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

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

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

I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.

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

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

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

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

The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.

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

Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

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

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

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