Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle) Quotes

A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.

Stendhal

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• I don't watch much television. My old TV agent used to always get mad at me because he'd send me out on auditions and I'd be like, 'What's this show?' and he'd be like, 'It's literally the top show on television.' I wasn't allowed to watch TV as a kid.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Me
  • Mad
  • Television

• I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Always
  • Audience
  • Movies

• There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Nothing
  • Wrong
  • Eyebrow

• Going to rehearsals of school plays got me out of science. It became clear what inspired me and what dampened my spirit. The only other thing I could do at school was trampolining - it didn't seem to have much future in it.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • School
  • Future
  • Science

• Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Work
  • Quality
  • Complexity

• I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.

  

  Om Puri
  • Child
  • Theatre
  • Grateful

• Sometimes in the middle of the night, I wake up with a song in my head, and I have to finish it so I can fall back asleep.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Song
  • Night

• Among various demands and charges I gave them, was, that the said flag should be delivered to me, and one of the United States' flags be received and hoisted in its place.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Place
  • Demands
  • Flag

• I don't think anybody is a poet 24/7, only in those rare moments when a person is producing a poem.

  

  X. J. Kennedy
  • Think
  • Moments
  • Person

• The ceaseless rain is falling fast, And yonder gilded vane,Immovable for three days past, Points to the misty main.

  

  Rain
  • Past
  • Rain

• Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt;It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Health
  • Hurt

• Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Women
  • Black
  • Perfect

• The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • War
  • Together
  • Lost

• I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.

  

  Brené Brown
  • Fear
  • Personality

• I don't regret doing 'The Living Daylights'. If I hadn't done Bond, I wouldn't have been in America doing my series, and I would have had a different life.

  

  Maryam D'Abo
  • Life
  • Different
  • Done

• The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Men

• We use the Heidelberg Catechism in our worship. Sometimes we read it responsively. Other times I'll work it into my communion liturgy. I'll quote it in my sermons from time to time. I've seen the Catechism used effectively as Sunday school material.

  

  Kevin DeYoung
  • Time
  • Work
  • School

• Comedy is good at analysing and dealing with evil because it doesn't present it as evil but a collection of banalities.

  

  David Farr
  • Good
  • Comedy
  • Evil

• Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Child

• Time is only an illusion produced by the succession of our states of consciousness as we travel through eternal duration, and it does not exist where no consciousness exists in which the illusion can be produced; but "lies asleep."

  

  H. P. Blavatsky
  • Time
  • Travel
  • Lies

• You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. Does that make sense?

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Lead

• I was going to call it a mistake, but you could argue that there are no mistakes in war, only fortunate and less fortunate events.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • War
  • Mistake

• I had no idea how complicated and solitary it could be to write a simple book.

  

  Jenny Lawson
  • Book
  • Simple

• A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.

  

  Stendhal
  • Character
  • Personality
  • Pride