More From Stendhal
- "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."
- "To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face."
- "To describe happiness is to diminish it."
More In Happiness
- "It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace."― George Bernard Shaw
- "You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can’t see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that’s me."― Vivien Leigh
- "Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected."― George Washington