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

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...

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

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

God's only excuse is that he does not exist.

God's only excuse is that he does not exist.

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.

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 French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all...

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all...

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge

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

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

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

Beauty is the promise of happiness

Beauty is the promise of happiness

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...

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

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.

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears

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

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

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his...

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his...

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion

Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence,...

Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence,...

Women's hands, heavy with diamonds, stirred coffee in tiny cups or alighted playfully on a...

Women's hands, heavy with diamonds, stirred coffee in tiny cups or alighted playfully on a...