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
fashion simple simplicity
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
selfishness desert fool
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
love dream stars
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
impact soul mind
Sometimes the impact of Mozart's music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
happiness laughter joy
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
book reading writing
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
spoiled pleasure describing
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
respect men should-have
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
promise
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
math hypocrisy vagueness
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
firsts ability historian
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
fashion obsolete hideous
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
leadership peace motivation
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
love broken-heart passion
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.