Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
Stendhal
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Stendhal
Age: 59 †
Born: 1783
Born: January 23
Died: 1842
Died: March 23
Autobiographer
Biographer
Diarist
Novelist
Writer
Marie-Henri Beyle
Henri Beyle
Opinion
Hospitality
Interest
Tries
Peace
Sheep
War
Propaganda
Trying
Interests
Always
Motivation
Shepherd
Thinking
Leadership
Shepherds
Vision
Persuade
More quotes by Stendhal
In our calling, we have to choose we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
Stendhal
Love has always been the most important business in my life I should say the only one.
Stendhal
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
Stendhal
Love is like fever it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
Stendhal
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.
Stendhal
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.
Stendhal
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
Stendhal
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
Stendhal
The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love give. I am man before being a prince, and when I have the good fortune to be in love, my mistress addresses a man and not a prince.
Stendhal
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You're supposed to seem bored.
Stendhal
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
Stendhal
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
Stendhal
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
Stendhal
When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
Stendhal
Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
Stendhal
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
Stendhal
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
Stendhal
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
Stendhal
I have a bad memory for facts.
Stendhal
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction, said Mathilde. It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
Stendhal
