I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

Quote by Stendhal

Topics: Women Quotes

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the...

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the...

A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are...

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are...

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is...

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is...

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both...

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both...

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.

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

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

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

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

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

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable...

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable...