223 Quotes by Stendhal

A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

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.

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.

Our true passions are selfish.

Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.