Honore de Balzac's Quotes

Honore de Balzac's Quotes 112

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

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

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to...

Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.

A mother's happiness is like a beacon lighting up the future but reflected...

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that...

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always...

When women love us they forgive us everything even our crimes when they do...

Finance like time devours its own children.

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

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews as great souls...

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

Death unites as well as separates it silences all paltry feeling.

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a...

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the...

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

At fifteen beauty and talent do not exist there can only be promise of the...

All humanity is passion without passion religion history novels art would...

What is art? Nature concentrated.

The art of motherhood involves much silent unobtrusive self-denial an...

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion history romance and art...

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

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

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