A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Honore de Balzac
A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
Honore de Balzac
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
Honore de Balzac
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Honore de Balzac
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Honore de Balzac
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
Honore de Balzac
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
Honore de Balzac
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Honore de Balzac
Finance, like time, devours its own children.
Honore de Balzac
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
Honore de Balzac
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
Honore de Balzac
I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
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.
Honore de Balzac
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
Honore de Balzac
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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.
Honore de Balzac
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
Honore de Balzac
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
Honore de Balzac
Modesty is the conscience of the body.
Honore de Balzac
Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
Honore de Balzac
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
Honore de Balzac
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
Honore de Balzac
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
Honore de Balzac
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Honore de Balzac
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul
Honore de Balzac
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
Honore de Balzac
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
Honore de Balzac
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
Honore de Balzac
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Honore de Balzac
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
Honore de Balzac
The more you judge, the less you love.
Honore de Balzac
Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
Honore de Balzac
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
Honore de Balzac
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
Honore de Balzac
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
Honore de Balzac
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Type:
Novelist
Date of Birth:
1799-05-20
Year of Death:
1850
Nationality:
French |
