223 Quotes by Stendhal

Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.

Women prefer emotions to reasoning.

I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.

I no longer find such pleasure in that preeminently good society, of which I was once so fond. It seems to me that beneath a cloak of clever talk it proscribes all energy, all originality. If you are not a copy, people accuse you of being ill-mannered.

Every true passion thinks only of itself.

One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.

It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.

Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.

To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You're supposed to seem bored.