Famous Quotes / Henri B. Stendhal
12 Quotations by Henri B. Stendhal
- 1. A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
- 2. A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
- 3. Beauty is the promise of happiness.
- 4. I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I ...
- 5. In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better ...
- 6. Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
- 7. One can acquire everything in solitude, except character.
- 8. Since I am a man, my heart is three or four times less sensitive, because I have three or four times ...
- 9. The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
- 10. The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
- 11. To describe happiness is to diminish it.
- 12. True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard ...