Stendhal Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.”

“The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.”

“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.”

“To describe happiness is to diminish it.”

“If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.”

“A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.”

“What is really beautiful must always be true.”

“Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.”

“A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.”

“It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.”