Stendhal - Woman Quotes

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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

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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.

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Woman is a delightful musical instrument, of which love is the bow, and man the artist.

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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse — as a luxury befitting a young man.

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With the present system of education for girls any genius who happens to be born a woman can make no contribution to public happiness.

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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth!

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It would be impossible for a woman to be more wretched …I hope I am going to die…I feel my heart freezing.

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The nervous fluid in man is consumed by the brain; in woman, by the heart: it is there that they are the most sensitive.

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Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.

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