Quotes of Stendhal - somelinesforyou

“ Beauty is the promise of happiness. ”

- Stendhal

“ People happy in love have an air of intensity. ”

- Stendhal

“ Friendship has its illusions no less than love. ”

- Stendhal

“ One can acquire everything in solitude except character. ”

- Stendhal

“ Only great minds can afford a simple style. ”

- Stendhal

“ Beauty is the promise of happiness. ”

- 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

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

- Stendhal

“ God's only excuse is that he does not exist ”

- Stendhal

“ For the future, I shall rely only upon those elements of my character which I have tested. Who would ever have said that I should find pleasure in shedding tears? That I should love the man who proves to me that I am nothing more than a fool? ”

- Stendhal

“ There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness. ”

- Stendhal

“ A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love ”

- Stendhal

“ A novel is a mirror walking along a main road. ”

- Stendhal

“ Un curé vertueux et sans intrigue est une Providence pour le village. ”

- Stendhal

“ A good book is an event in my life. ”

- Stendhal

“ A good book is an event in my life. ”

- Stendhal

“ Ah, Sir, a novel is a mirror carried along a high road. At one moment it reflects to your vision the azure skies, at another the mire of the puddles at your feet. And the man who carries this mirror in his pack will be accused by you of being immoral! His mirror shews the mire, and you blame the mirror! Rather blame that high road upon which the puddle lies, still more the inspector of roads who allows the water to gather and the puddle to form. ”

- Stendhal

“ Ah, Sir, a novel is a mirror carried along a high road. At one moment it reflects to your vision the azure skies, at another the mire of the puddles at your feet. And the man who carries this mirror in his pack will be accused by you of being immoral! His mirror shews the mire, and you blame the mirror! Rather blame that high road upon which the puddle lies, still more the inspector of roads who allows the water to gather and the puddle to form. ”

- Stendhal

“ One can acquire everything in solitude, except character. ”

- Stendhal

“ Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it. ”

- Stendhal

“ Beauty is the promise of happiness. ”

- Stendhal

“ The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent. ”

- Stendhal

“ The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent. ”

- Stendhal

“ If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion. ”

- Stendhal

“ God's only excuse is that he does not exist. ”

- Stendhal

“ All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. ”

- Stendhal

“ She had caprices of a marvelous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice? ”

- Stendhal

“ A novel is a mirror carried along a main road. ”

- Stendhal

“ The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly. ”

- Stendhal

“ All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. ”

- Stendhal
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