The Red and the Black Quotes

"At sixteen, Madame de Rênal, rich heiress of a devoted aunt, was married to a well-bred gentleman, having neither experienced nor witnessed, at any time in her life, anything that resembled in th...

Several hours later, when Julien left Madame de Rênal's room, one might have said, as they say these things in romantic novels, that he had nothing else to desire. (1.15.18)

Elisa, Madame de Rênal's chambermaid, had had no trouble falling in love with the young tutor; she spoke of him, often, to her mistress. (1.7.4)

A stream that rushes down from the mountains, crossing through Verrières and then pouring itself into the Doubs, powers a good many sawmills—an immensely simple industry that provides a modest l...

Despite his prudent reflections, Monsieur de Rênal's dissatisfaction did not blaze any the less brightly in the stream of vulgar comments that followed. (1.9.24)

Julien's pride was aroused by these words that demolished the fairy-tale world in which, for a quarter of an hour, he had been living. (1.6.20)

The masculine ways people thought necessary, for a man to be handsome, made her afraid. (1.6.26)

At first sight, one often feels that he blends the dignity of mayoral status with the sort of charm still often to be found in a man of forty-five or fifty. (1.1.3)