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
children spring
Spring appears and we are once more children.
blessing boredom age
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
avarice-greed morality kind
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
careers painful divine
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
mad advice pay
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
powerful grief men
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
pleasure sample ifs
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
boredom married inevitable
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
bottles moral champagne
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
life men vanity
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
writing clear
I see but one rule: to be clear.
happiness wise yield
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
men imagination half
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he
men two devil
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?