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
husband romantic-love lovers
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
men years youth
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
play tables pistols
An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
style vision
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
hands want-something air
A melancholy air can never be the right thing; what you want is a bored air. If you are melancholy, it must be because you want something, there is something in which you have not succeeded. It is shewing your inferiority. If you are bored, on the other hand, it is the person who has tried in vain to please you who is inferior.
leadership art men
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
beautiful art memories
The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
perfection mind events
I call 'crystallization' that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
hero men france
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
spy language human-nature
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.
emotion reasoning
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
world clear ifs
I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
clever people energy
I no longer find such pleasure in that preeminently good society, of which I was once so fond. It seems to me that beneath a cloak of clever talk it proscribes all energy, all originality. If you are not a copy, people accuse you of being ill-mannered.
passion thinking very-true
Every true passion thinks only of itself.