Stendhal People Quotations

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.

The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world

Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.

War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's proclamations.

I no longer find such pleasure in that preeminently good society, of which I was once so fond. It seems to me that beneath a cloak of clever talk it proscribes all energy, all originality. If you are not a copy, people accuse you of being ill-mannered.