Quotes by : Stendhal

To write a book is to risk being shot at in public.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing....

For the future, I shall rely only upon those elements of my character which I have tested. Who would....

Mathilde made an effort to use the more intimate form; she was evidently more attentive to this unusual....

An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used....

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

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better....

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to....

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us