More Quotes by Stendhal
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
Want of exercise was beginning to affect his health and to give him the weak and excitable character of a young German student.
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
Love is a beautiful flower, but we must be brave enough to pick her up from the edge of a precipice.
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
