Quote: Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion. [Frederic Stendhal]
Quote: To describe happiness is to diminish it. [Frederic Stendhal]
Quote: 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. [Frederic Stendhal]
Quote: The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. [Frederic Stendhal]
Quote: 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. [Frederic Stendhal]
Quote: 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. [Frederic Stendhal]
Quote: 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. [Frederic Stendhal]
Quote: Since I am a man, my heart is three or four times less sensitive, because I have three or four times as much power of reason and experience of the world -- a thing which you women call hard-heartedness. As a man, I can take refuge in having mistresses. The more of them I have, and the greater the scandal, the more I acquire reputation and brilliance in society. [Frederic Stendhal]
Quote: One can acquire everything in solitude except character. [Frederic Stendhal]
Quote: A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness. [Frederic Stendhal]
Quote: Beauty is the promise of happiness. [Frederic Stendhal]
Quote: A novel is a mirror carried along a main road. [Frederic Stendhal]
Quote: This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom. [Frederic Stendhal]
Quote: 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. [Frederic Stendhal]
Quote: Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge. [Frederic Stendhal]
Quote: Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one. [Frederic Stendhal]
Quote: All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. [Frederic Stendhal]
Quote: Friendship has its illusions no less than love. [Frederic Stendhal]
Quote: Power, after love, is the first source of happiness. [Frederic Stendhal]
Quote: A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. [Frederic Stendhal]
Quote: If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us. [Frederic Stendhal]
Quote: 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. [Frederic Stendhal]
Quote: 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. [Frederic Stendhal]
Quote: If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured. [Frederic Stendhal]
Quote: To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face. [Frederic Stendhal]