Quotes by 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.

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

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

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.

Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.