More Quotes by Stendhal
If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us
Old age is nothing but the absence of madness, the loss of illusion and passion.
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
Love is a beautiful flower, but we must be brave enough to pick her up from the edge of a precipice.
I cannot provide the reality of events, I can only convey their shadow.
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
The more one pleases generally, the less one pleases profoundly.
There's one convenience about absolute power, that it sanctifies everything in the eyes of the people.
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
