StendhalThinkers

Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.

Beauty is of as many styles as visions of happiness.

The Book , when good, is an event in one's life.

Boredom is a waste of time. Life is short and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.

Character is not to be acquired in solitude.

Conversation is like the table of contents of a dull book. All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayed in it. Listen to it for three minutes, and you ask yourself which is more striking, the emphasis of the speaker or his shocking ignorance.

Crystallization is that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.

Death is a thought made frequent, easy, without terrors by love... it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

The Englishman is the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world.

Fashion is the best of things which quickly becomes the worst. Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

The Frenchman is the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on earth.