Stendhal
Stendhal
Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by his pen name Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer. Best known for the novels Le Rouge et le Noirand La Chartreuse de Parme, he is highly regarded for the acute analysis of his characters' psychology and considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth23 January 1783
CountryFrance
pride men birth
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
interesting landscape moral
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
emotion reasoning
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
vanity people littles
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
bored taste sorrowful
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You're supposed to seem bored.
pleasure sample ifs
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
fashion horse men
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.
reading people suffering
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.
passion race music-love
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
caprice unexpectedness marvellous
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
weapons feminine found
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
passion thinking very-true
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
mind her-beauty
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
bottles moral champagne
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.