Honore de Balzac's Quotes

Honore de Balzac's Quotes 112

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment the one being...

Political liberty the peace of a nation and science itself are gifts for...

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is...

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in...

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

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is...

Men die in despair while spirits die in ecstasy.

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

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one...

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all but love only...

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly stupid or intelligent....

True love is eternal infinite and always like itself. It is equal and pure...

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

Love is the poetry of the senses.

The fact is that love is of two kinds one which commands and one which...

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

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

For passion be it observed brings insight with it it can give a sort of...

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as...

When Religion and Royalty are swept away the people will attack the great...

The smallest flower is a thought a life answering to some feature of the...

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary...

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

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