Quotes By Stendhal

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

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.

Our true passions are selfish.

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

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.

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

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

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

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

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

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.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

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