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 age limits
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. ... there are no age limits for love.
writing soul violin
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.
tyrants ideas
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
love positive valentines-day
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
character community solitude
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
concern imagination middle politics rouge
Politics in the middle of things that concern the imagination are like a pistol-shot in the middle of a concert, ... Le Rouge et le noir.
cure curse strangest
This is the curse of our age, that even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
choice herself importance lover places sees view woman women
In the choice of a lover a woman places more importance on how other women view him than on how she herself sees him.
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.