More Quotes by Stendhal
What is the use of a love that makes one yawn? One might as well take to religion.
Want of exercise was beginning to affect his health and to give him the weak and excitable character of a young German student.
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 is nothing so beautiful, lovable and moving as the English countryside.
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
I cannot provide the reality of events, I can only convey their shadow.
Old age is nothing but the absence of madness, the loss of illusion and passion.
