223 Quotes by Stendhal

I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.

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

At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.

It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one's generation.

Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.