Stendhal Quotes
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
Stendhal. The Red and the Black. Translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff, Boni & Liveright, 1926.
When Moynihan was U. S. Chief Delegate he was chided by the Soviet delegate to "take care" for his strong rhetoric lest he offend other nations.
One of 5 very accomplished sisters of the prestigious Mitford family, she married Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists. Her marriage, in 1936, took place at the home of Joseph Goebbels, with Adolf Hitler as guest of honor. Subsequently, her involvement with right-wing political causes resulted in three years' internment during the Second World War and social disgrace.and ostracism.
Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by his pen name Stendhal (UK: /ˈstɒ̃dɑːl/, US: /stɛnˈdɑːl, stænˈ-/; French: [stɛ̃dal, stɑ̃dal]), was a 19th-century French writer. Best known for the novels Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black, 1830) and La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma, 1839), he is highly regarded for the acute analysis of his characters' psychology and considered one of the early and foremost practitioners of realism.
