Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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
Years
Way
Imitate
Always
Russians
Eyebrows
French
Fifty
Distance
Ways
More quotes by Stendhal
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.
Stendhal
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
Stendhal
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.
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
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.
Stendhal
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction, said Mathilde. It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
Stendhal
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
Stendhal
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
Stendhal
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
Stendhal
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
Stendhal
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
Stendhal
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.
Stendhal
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
Stendhal
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
Stendhal
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
Stendhal
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
Stendhal
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.
Stendhal
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
Stendhal
