82 quotes found
Writer · French · 1783–1842
French writer (1783–1842)
“After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.”
“I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.”
“People happy in love have an air of intensity.”
“If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.”
“Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.”
“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.”
“The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.”
“To describe happiness is to diminish it.”
“Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.”
“The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.”
“All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.”
“Only great minds can afford a simple style.”
“The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.”
“Friendship has its illusions no less than love.”
“The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.”
“They were completely vague. They expressed everything and nothing. 'It is the olian harp of style,' thought Julien. 'Amid the most lofty thoughts about annihilation, death, the infinite, etc., I ca...”
“In Paris, Juliens position with regard to Madame de Renal would very soon have been simplified; but in Paris love is the child of the novels. The young tutor and his timid mistress would have found...”
“Without patience, without absence of anger, no one can be called a politician.”
“A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.”
“The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.”
