If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
More Quotes from Stendhal:
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.Stendhal
Politics in the middle of things that concern the imagination are like a pistol-shot in the middle of a concert, ... Le Rouge et le noir.
Stendhal
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
Stendhal
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
Stendhal
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
Stendhal
In the choice of a lover a woman places more importance on how other women view him than on how she herself sees him.
Stendhal
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Man Quotes, Power QuotesHuman life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
Samuel Butler
What I love is a peanut butter and pickle sandwich. I'll just have peanut butter and bananas, then peanut butter and pickles. Peanut butter and chocolate I don't recommend.
Dianne Wiest
When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.
Carroll Quigley