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
art science dodge
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
race musical earth
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
reading people suffering
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
character pride sacrifice
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
beauty men passionate-love
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
women emotion
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
love pay easy
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
distance eyebrows years
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
ideas judging matter
In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
mind ruts genius
...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
heart self enlightenment
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
doors able prison-life
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
love fever process
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
power love-is firsts
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.