Stendhal

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion. ↗

— Stendhal

#hideous #nothing #obsolete

Our true passions are selfish. ↗

— Stendhal

#passions #selfish #true

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. ↗

— Stendhal

#cannot #certain #certain things #even #every

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore. ↗

— Stendhal

#gun #however #ignore #impossible #like

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all. ↗

— Stendhal

#kind #worst

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice? ↗

— Stendhal

#caprice #had #how #imitate #marvellous

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth. ↗

— Stendhal

#earth #events #french #least #most

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man. ↗

— Stendhal

#both #desire #especially #fashionable #fine

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. ↗

— Stendhal

#argument #cautious #governed #habit #intense

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears. ↗

— Stendhal

#fears #love #our #pleasures #proportion