223 Quotes by Stendhal

There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love

A good book is an event in my life.

La marche ordinaire du XIXe siècle est que, quand un être puissant et noble rencontre un homme de coeur, il le tue, l'exile, l'emprisonne ou l'humilie tellement, que l'autre a la sottise d'en mourir de douleur.

A novel is a mirror walking along a main road.

C'est singulier, le verbe guillotiner ne peut pas se conjuguer dans tous ses temps, on peut bien dire: Je serai guillotiné, tu seras guillotiné, mais on ne dit pas: J'ai été guillotiné. Pourquoi pas, reprit Julien, s'il y a une autre vie?...

It seems that my destiny is to die dreaming.

I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.

A melancholy air can never be the right thing; what you want is a bored air. If you are melancholy, it must be because you want something, there is something in which you have not succeeded.It is shewing your inferiority. If you are bored, on the other hand, it is the person who has tried in vain to please you who is inferior.