Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
- Stendhal
Emotion, Always, Lookout, Eagerly
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
- Stendhal
Woman, Think, I Think, Newly
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
- Stendhal
Wise, Never, Always, Unforeseen
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
- Stendhal
Politics, However, Which, Literary Work
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
- Stendhal
Boredom, Curse, Even, Strangest
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
- Stendhal
Always, Tries, His, Shepherd
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
- Stendhal
Character, Except, Acquire, Solitude
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.
- Stendhal
Woman, Desire, Young, Great Majority
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
- Stendhal
She, How, Marvellous, Caprice
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.
- Stendhal
Love, Comparison, Standard, Terrors
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
- Stendhal
Think, Eternal, Paying, Ruin
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
- Stendhal
Never, Himself, Found, Weapons
Our true passions are selfish.
- Stendhal
Selfish, True, Our, Passions
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.
- Stendhal
Love, Always, Other, Passions
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
- Stendhal
Love, Argument, Race, Passions
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
- Stendhal
Race, Musical, Least, French
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
- Stendhal
Always, Ways, Russians, French
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
- Stendhal
Mirror, Along, Carried, Novel
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
- Stendhal
Art, Nor, Neither, Dodge
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
- Stendhal
Love, Friendship, Than, Illusions
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
- Stendhal
Mathematics, Hypocrisy, Vagueness
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
- Stendhal
Love, Happiness, Power, Love Is
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
- Stendhal
Religions, Few, Cleverness, All Religions
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
- Stendhal
Ability, Invent, Historian, Qualification
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
- Stendhal
Wisdom, More, Everybody, Pleases
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.
- Stendhal
Other, Been, Which, Reminded
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
- Stendhal
Love, Small, Very, Sufficient
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
- Stendhal
Happiness, Describe, Diminish
Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.
- Stendhal
Envy, Than, Far, Wit
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
- Stendhal
Will, Nobility, Which, Forty
If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
- Stendhal
Love, Romantic, Matter, Anyway
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
- Stendhal
Love, Fear, Always, Pleasures
God's only excuse is that he does not exist.
- Stendhal
Only, Exist, Does, Excuse
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
- Stendhal
Love, Happy, Air, Intensity
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
- Stendhal
Kind, Worst, Avarice
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.
- Stendhal
Work, Art, Will, Finds
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
- Stendhal
Minds, Only, Afford, Great Minds
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
- Stendhal
Something, Same Time, Pity
What is really beautiful must always be true.
- Stendhal
Beautiful, True, Always, Be True
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
- Stendhal
Never, Waste, Too, Life Is Too Short
Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.
- Stendhal
Love, My Life, Always, The Most Important
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
- Stendhal
Woman, Loved, Her, Youth
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