More Quotes by Stendhal
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
I cannot provide the reality of events, I can only convey their shadow.
The more one pleases generally, the less one pleases profoundly.
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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.
There's one convenience about absolute power, that it sanctifies everything in the eyes of the people.
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
There is nothing so beautiful, lovable and moving as the English countryside.
