Honore De Balzac Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Honore De Balzac
Honore De Balzac Famous Quotes & Sayings
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To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.
The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven.
What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers.
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
Well, then, this Loriot, who sold corn to those butchers, has never had but one passion, they say - he idolizes his daughters.
Fathers must always be giving if they would be happy themselves; always giving - they would not be fathers else.
Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.
An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.
What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?
Every compartment in his brain which he had thought to find so full of wit was bolted fast; he grew positively stupid.
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.
The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true
Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.
Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the male bird.
Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory.
Every day, before our eyes, a moral phenomenon of amazing profundity takes place which is, nevertheless, so simple as never to be noticed.
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
For she was invaded by a kind of love which every girl has gone through - the love of the unknown, love in its vaguest form,
Yes, I can understand that a man might go to gambling table - when he sees that all that lies between himself and death is his last crown
One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy.
To man, faith; to woman, doubt. She bears the heavier burden. Does not woman invariably suffer for two?
In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.
Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.
Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself.
Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.
Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.
A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, Serve all, love one.