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Stendhal Inspirational Quotes (80)

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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Sometimes the impact of Mozart's music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction, said Mathilde. It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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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.
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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You're supposed to seem bored.
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A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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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.
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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