Honore de Balzac Quotes

Love is the poetry of the senses... view

By: Honore de Balzac

Love is a game in which one always cheats... view

By: Honore de Balzac

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside... view

By: Honore de Balzac

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught... view

By: Honore de Balzac

It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft... view

By: Honore de Balzac

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants... view

By: Honore de Balzac

Finance, like time, devours its own children... view

By: Honore de Balzac

Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite... view

By: Honore de Balzac

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion.. view

By: Honore de Balzac

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time... view

By: Honore de Balzac

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane... view

By: Honore de Balzac

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps... view

By: Honore de Balzac

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life... view

By: Honore de Balzac

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye... view

By: Honore de Balzac

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls... view

By: Honore de Balzac

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music... view

By: Honore de Balzac

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time... view

By: Honore de Balzac

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action... view

By: Honore de Balzac

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love... view

By: Honore de Balzac

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect.. view

By: Honore de Balzac