Honore de Balzac Quotes
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
By : Honore de Balzac
Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
By : Honore de Balzac
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
By : Honore de Balzac
Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
By : Honore de Balzac
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
By : Honore de Balzac
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
By : Honore de Balzac
Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
By : Honore de Balzac
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
By : Honore de Balzac
The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation
By : Honore de Balzac
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
By : Honore de Balzac
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
By : Honore de Balzac
Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
By : Honore de Balzac
Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
By : Honore de Balzac
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
By : Honore de Balzac
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
By : Honore de Balzac
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
By : Honore de Balzac
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
By : Honore de Balzac
To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
By : Honore de Balzac
When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
By : Honore de Balzac
What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?
By : Honore de Balzac
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
By : Honore de Balzac
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
By : Honore de Balzac
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
By : Honore de Balzac
To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
By : Honore de Balzac