Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

By : Honore de Balzac

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

By : Honore de Balzac

A young bride is like a plucked flower

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

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.

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

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

By : Honore de Balzac

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

By : Honore de Balzac

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

By : Honore de Balzac

Death unites as well as separates

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

All humanity is passion

By : Honore de Balzac