223 Quotes by Stendhal

The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.

In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.

I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.