Honore de Balzac Quotes

There is something great and terrible about suicide... view

By: Honore de Balzac

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power... view

By: Honore de Balzac

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile... view

By: Honore de Balzac

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition... view

By: Honore de Balzac

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom.. view

By: Honore de Balzac

The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste... view

By: Honore de Balzac

Modesty is the conscience of the body... view

By: Honore de Balzac

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human... view

By: Honore de Balzac

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart... view

By: Honore de Balzac

All humanity is passion.. view

By: Honore de Balzac

Death unites as well as separates.. view

By: Honore de Balzac

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness... view

By: Honore de Balzac

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it... view

By: Honore de Balzac

Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God... view

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Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty... view

By: Honore de Balzac

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy... view

By: Honore de Balzac

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment.. view

By: Honore de Balzac

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race... view

By: Honore de Balzac

Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window... view

By: Honore de Balzac

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime... view

By: Honore de Balzac

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact... view

By: Honore de Balzac

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence... view

By: Honore de Balzac

Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing... view

By: Honore de Balzac

A young bride is like a plucked flower.. view

By: Honore de Balzac

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea... view

By: Honore de Balzac

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears... view

By: Honore de Balzac

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories... view

By: Honore de Balzac

A mother who is really a mother is never free... view

By: Honore de Balzac

A man is a poor creature compared to a woman... view

By: Honore de Balzac

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second.. view

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A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed... view

By: Honore de Balzac

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists... view

By: Honore de Balzac

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning... view

By: Honore de Balzac

A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity... view

By: Honore de Balzac

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist.. view

By: Honore de Balzac

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity... view

By: Honore de Balzac

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity... view

By: Honore de Balzac

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman.. view

By: Honore de Balzac

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation... view

By: Honore de Balzac

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies... view

By: Honore de Balzac

Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together.. view

By: Honore de Balzac

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow... view

By: Honore de Balzac