Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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
Find
Survive
Must
Allowed
Love
Absence
Necessities
Among
Bare
Struggle
Classes
Education
Chemistry
Class
Paris
Energy
Vanity
More quotes by Stendhal
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
Stendhal
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
Stendhal
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
Stendhal
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
Stendhal
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.
Stendhal
The first virtue of a young man today - that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers - is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
Stendhal
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
Stendhal
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
Stendhal
I have a bad memory for facts.
Stendhal
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
Stendhal
I call crystallization that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
Stendhal
Love is like fever it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
Stendhal
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of anextreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
Stendhal
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
Stendhal
The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
Stendhal
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
Stendhal
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.
Stendhal
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction, said Mathilde. It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
Stendhal
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
Stendhal
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
Stendhal
