223 Quotes by Stendhal

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

What is really beautiful must always be true.

Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.