Author: Stendhal

Cites

Georges Danton (1)
- IN: The Red and the Black (1830) Fiction, French
  EPIGRAPH: Truth, the bitter truth
  FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
Walter Scott (1)
- IN: Love (1957) Fiction, French
  EPIGRAPH: That you should be made a fool of by a young woman, why, it is many an honest man's case.
  FROM: The Pirate, Vol III, (1822), NULL, UK
Ariosto (1)
- IN: The Charterhouse of Parma (1839) Fiction, French
  EPIGRAPH: Gia mi fur dolci inviti a empir le carte I luoghi ameni. (Once, favourite places were a sweet invitation to me To fill sheets of paper.)
  FROM: Satire IV, (None), Poem, Italy

Cited by

Carlos Fuentes (1)
- IN: The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962) Fiction, NULL
  EPIGRAPH: Moi seul, je sais ce que j'aurais pu faire... Pour les autres, je ne susi tout au plus qu'un peut-etre.
  FROM: The Red and the Black, (1830), Novel, France
Orhan Pamuk (1)
- IN: Snow (2002) Fiction, NULL
  EPIGRAPH: Politics in a literary work are a pistol-shot in the middle of a concert, a crude affair though one impossible to ignore. We are about to speak of very ugly matters.
  FROM: The Charterhouse of Parma (translated by Richard Howard), (1839), Novel, France
Maurice Druon (5)
- IN: The Poisoned Crown (1957) Fiction, French
  EPIGRAPH: It is terrifying to think how much research is needed to determine the truth of even the most unimportant fact.
  FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
- IN: The Lily and the Lion (1960) Fiction, French
  EPIGRAPH: It is terrifying to think how much research is needed to determine the truth of even the most unimportant fact.
  FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
- IN: The She Wolf (1955) Fiction, French
  EPIGRAPH: It is terrifying to think how much research is needed to determine the truth of even the most unimportant fact.
  FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
- IN: The Royal Succession (1957) Fiction, French
  EPIGRAPH: It is terrifying to think how much research is needed to determine the truth of even the most unimportant fact.
  FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
Patrick Modiano (1)
- IN: So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood (2014) Fiction, American
  EPIGRAPH: I cannot provide the reality of events, I can only convey their shadow.
  FROM: The Life of Henry Brulard, (1890), Book, France
Colin Dexter (1)
- IN: The Jewel That Was Ours (1991) Fiction, Mystery, American
  EPIGRAPH: It is not impossible to become bored in the presence of a mistress
  FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
William McPherson (1)
- IN: Testing the Current (1984) Fiction, American
  EPIGRAPH: Plus de details, plus de details... il n'y a d'originalite et de verite que dans les details.
  FROM: Lucien Leuwen, (1894), Novel, France
Herve Le Tellier (1)
- IN: Enough About Love (2009) Fiction, French
  EPIGRAPH: For me, love has always been the most important of matters, or rather the only one.
  FROM: The Life of Henry Brulard, (1834), Book, France
Michel Déon (1)
- IN: Your Father's Room (2004) Fiction, French
  EPIGRAPH: After all these general remarks, I shall now be born.
  FROM: The Life of Henry Brulard, (1890), Book, France
John Dos Passos (1)
- IN: Three Soldiers (1921) Fiction, British
  EPIGRAPH: "Les contemporains qui souffrent de certaines choses ne peruvent s'en souvenir qu'avec une horreur qui paralyse tout autre plaisir, meme celui de lire un conte."
  FROM: Le Rouge et Le Noir, (1830), Novel, France
Annapurna Potluri (1)
- IN: The Grammarian (2004) Historical Fiction, NULL
  EPIGRAPH: “Seulement ces paroles: Je me trouve justement condamné.” “Mere words. I consider myself justly convicted.”
  FROM: The Red and The Black, (1830), Novel, France
Caleb Crain (1)
- IN: Necessary Errors (2013) Fiction, American
  EPIGRAPH: This epoch of unexpected happiness and drunkenness lasted only two short years: the madness was so excessive and so general that it would be impossible for me to give any idea of it, except by this historical and penetrating reflection: the purple had been bored for a hundred years.
  FROM: Staré Mesto, (None), NULL, France