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

Quote by Stendhal

Topics: Age Quotes, Funny Quotes

Even a very small degree of hope is enough to cause the birth of love.

Even a very small degree of hope is enough to cause the birth of love.

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

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

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

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

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...

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears

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.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a...

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a...

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

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

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.

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...

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

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.

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion

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...

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...

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

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

Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

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...