Henri B. Stendhal Quotes

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Year of Birth:
1783
Year of Death:
1842
Nationality:
French
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Henri B. Stendhal

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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
Henri B. Stendhal

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
Henri B. Stendhal

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.
Henri B. Stendhal

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.
Henri B. Stendhal

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
Henri B. Stendhal

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
Henri B. Stendhal

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.
Henri B. Stendhal

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
Henri B. Stendhal

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
Henri B. Stendhal

To describe happiness is to diminish it.
Henri B. Stendhal

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.
Henri B. Stendhal


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