223 Quotes by Stendhal

Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.

This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregiousof sins.... It is one step away from protestantism.

I have a bad memory for facts.

Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.

Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.

I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.

Realitatea i se paru plata si murdara; e de inteles sa nu iti placa sa o privesti dar atunci nici nu iti este ingaduit sa o judeci.

If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

This man, whom great monarchies would have envied the prince of Parma, was known to have only one passion: of holding intimate conversations with great personages and currying favour by his buffoonery.