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
love pay easy
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
husband romantic-love lovers
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
promise
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
mind phosphorus knows
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
perfection mind events
I call 'crystallization' that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
boredom unhappiness
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
avarice-greed morality kind
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
deeds stuff doe
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
logical-reasoning pieces offensive
Chélan had acted as imprudently for Julien as he had for himself. He had given him the habit of reasoning correctly, and of not being put off by empty words, but he had neglected to tell him that this habit was a crime in the person of no importance, since every piece of logical reasoning is offensive.
struggle class paris
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.
blessing boredom age
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
respect men should-have
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.