Quotes by : Stendhal

After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.

Love born in the brain is more spirited, doubtless, than true love, but it has only flashes of enthusiasm;....

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

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

They were completely vague. They expressed everything and nothing. 'It is the Æolian harp of style,'....

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

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

One can acquire everything in solitude but character.