Quotes of Henri B. Stendhal - somelinesforyou

“ Beauty is the promise of happiness. ”

- 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

“ Beauty is the promise of happiness. ”

- Henri B. Stendhal

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

- Henri B. Stendhal

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

- 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

“ The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. ”

- Henri B. Stendhal

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

- Henri B. Stendhal

“ The only unhappiness is a life of boredom. ”

- Henri B. Stendhal

“ To describe happiness is to diminish it. ”

- Henri B. Stendhal

“ 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. ”

- Henri B. Stendhal

“ The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. ”

- 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

“ Beauty is the promise of happiness. ”

- 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

“ 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

“ The only unhappiness is a life of boredom. ”

- 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

“ 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

“ Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion. ”

- Henri B. Stendhal

“ The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. ”

- Henri B. Stendhal

“ The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. ”

- Henri B. Stendhal

“ The only unhappiness is a life of boredom. ”

- Henri B. Stendhal

“ A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness. ”

- 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

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

- Henri B. Stendhal

“ 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. ”

- 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

“ Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion. ”

- 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
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