The Red and the Black Quotes

“There is nothing so beautiful, lovable and moving as the English countryside.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black: A Play in Three Acts Based on the Novel by Stendhal

“Amantes hay en todas partes pero honor, no hay más que uno”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black: A Play in Three Acts Based on the Novel by Stendhal

“Now civilization has banished chance, there is no more of the unexpected. If it comes up in ideas there aren't enough epigrams to throw at it; if it comes up in action no amount of cowardice is enough to cope with our fears.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black: A Play in Three Acts Based on the Novel by Stendhal

“C'est singulier, le verbe guillotiner ne peut pas se conjuguer dans tous ses temps, on peut bien dire: Je serai guillotiné, tu seras guillotiné, mais on ne dit pas: J'ai été guillotiné.
Pourquoi pas, reprit Julien, s'il y a une autre vie?...”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black: A Play in Three Acts Based on the Novel by Stendhal

“Never had that head been so poetic at as the moment it was to fall. The sweetest hours he had known in the woods at Vergy long ago crowding into his thoughts with wonderful intensity.

Everything passed off simply, appropriately, and with no affectation on his part.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black: A Play in Three Acts Based on the Novel by Stendhal

“It's like a duel, he said laughing to himself — my master-at-arms says there's a parry to every thrust, but that the good Lord, who desires an end, so orders it that one of the two forgets to parry.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black: A Play in Three Acts Based on the Novel by Stendhal

“M. Valenod had, in effect, said to the food suppliers: give me the two most stupid among you; to the lawyers: show me the two who know least; to the medical officers: point out two charlatans. When he had assembled the most shameless examples of each profession, he had said to them: Let's rule together.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black: A Play in Three Acts Based on the Novel by Stendhal

“Their happiness at times took on the appearance of a crime.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black: A Play in Three Acts Based on the Novel by Stendhal

“Viéndose forzado a pasar ocho días en Estrasburgo, Julián trataba de distraerse con ideas de gloria militar y de entrega a la patria. ¿Estaba enamorado? No lo sabía. Sólo sentía que su alma se atormentaba por Matilde y que ésta era dueña absoluta de su felicidad y de su imaginación.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black: A Play in Three Acts Based on the Novel by Stendhal