Henri B. Stendhal Quotes

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

» One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

» To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.

» A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

» Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

» To describe happiness is to diminish it.

» The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

» 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.

» In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

» The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.

» I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

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