About Stendhal
Marie-Henri Beyle (French: [maʁi ɑ̃ʁi bɛl]; 23 January 1783 – 23 March 1842), better known by his pen name Stendhal (UK: , US: , French: [stɛ̃dal, stɑ̃dal]), was a French writer. Best known for the novels Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black, 1830) and La Chartreuse...
More quotations from Stendhal
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
More quotations tagged with “character”
When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
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