223 Quotes by Stendhal

Sometimes the impact of Mozart's music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.