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The glutton is much more than an animal and much less than a man.
— Honore De Balzac
To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
— Honore De Balzac
By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct.
— Honore De Balzac
Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.
— Honore De Balzac
We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.
— Honore De Balzac
Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
— Honore De Balzac
an honest man is the man who keeps his own counsel, and will not divide the plunder.
— Honore De Balzac
You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth.
— Honore De Balzac
If I'd had a man of my own, I'd have followed him ... down to hell.
— Honore De Balzac
How can we explain the perpetuity of envya vice which yields no return? — Honore De Balzac
Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
— Honore De Balzac
Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret.
— Honore De Balzac
No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.
— Honore De Balzac
People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature.
— Russel Honore
There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
— Honore De Balzac
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.
— Honore De Balzac
All happiness depends on courage and work.
— Honore De Balzac
If I'm a leader, I have a mission.
— Russel Honore
Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves.
— Honore De Balzac
You may imitate, but never counterfeit.
— Honore De Balzac
No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival.
— Honore De Balzac
Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
— Honore De Balzac
I do not share the belief in indefinite progress for society as a whole; I believe in man's improvement in himself.
— Honore De Balzac
You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans.
— Russel Honore
The more one judges, the less one loves.
— Honore De Balzac
Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
— Honore De Balzac
Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
— Honore De Balzac
I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
— Honore De Balzac
A husband and wife found themselves in love with each other for the first time after twenty-seven years of marriage.
— Honore De Balzac
Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
— Honore De Balzac
Reading brings us unknown friends
— Honore De Balzac
Christianity and monarchy are twin principles.
— Honore De Balzac
A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
— Honore De Balzac
Life cannot go on without a great deal of forgetting.
— Honore De Balzac
Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
— Honore De Balzac
A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion.
— Honore De Balzac
A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.
— Honore De Balzac
Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.
— Honore De Balzac
Thought is the only treasure that God sets outside all power and keeps to serve as a secret link among the unhappy.
— Honore De Balzac
Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.
— Honore De Balzac
Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!
— Honore De Balzac
Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.
— Honore De Balzac
Generally our confidences move downward rather than upward; in our secret affairs, we employ our inferiors much more than our bettors.
— Honore De Balzac
A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
— Honore De Balzac
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
— Honore De Balzac
Little minds find gratification for their feelings, benevolent or otherwise, by a constant exercise of petty ingenuity.
— Honore De Balzac
Necessity is often the spur to genius.
— Honore De Balzac
But woman brings disorder into society through passion.
— Honore De Balzac
The more you judge, the less you love.
— Honore De Balzac
Women, perhaps even require a little hypocrisy.
— Honore De Balzac
Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.
— Honore De Balzac
Conscience, my dear, is a kind of stick that everyone picks up to thrash his neighbor with, but one he never uses against himself.
— Honore De Balzac
When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.
— Honore De Balzac
Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.
— Honore De Balzac
Superstorm Sandy inflicted havoc and heartache throughout the Northeast, hitting the Big Apple and its surrounding coastal towns hard.
— Russel Honore
When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
— Honore De Balzac
Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats
— Honore De Balzac
Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
— Honore De Balzac
Nothing about me surprises me.
— Honore De Balzac
A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.
— Honore De Balzac
Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects.
— Honore De Balzac
Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not dream of inviting to their homes.
— Honore De Balzac
The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them.
— Honore De Balzac
He looked like some plant bleached by darkness.
— Honore De Balzac
She was white like the sands, tawny like the sands, solitary and burning like the sands.
— Honore De Balzac
Your women of fashion ceases to be a woman. She is neither mother, nor wife, nor lover. She is, medically speaking, sex on the brain.
— Honore De Balzac
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
— Honore De Balzac
Behind every fortune there is a crime.
— Honore De Balzac
So an honest man is the common enemy.
— Honore De Balzac
Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.
— Honore De Balzac
Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves.
— Honore De Balzac
The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
— Honore De Balzac
Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.
— Honore De Balzac
There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.
— Honore De Balzac
Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.
— Honore De Balzac
A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.
— Honore De Balzac
Give a Paris woman at bay four-and-twenty hours, and she will overthrow a ministry.
— Honore De Balzac
In family life people almost always adjust themselves to misfortune. They make a bed of it and hope makes them accept that bed, however hard it is.
— Honore De Balzac
Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers.
— Honore De Balzac
Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.
— Honore De Balzac
No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
— Honore De Balzac
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,
— Honore De Balzac
Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.
— Honore De Balzac
Money brings everything to you; even your daughters.
— Honore De Balzac
The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
— Honore De Balzac
The little wisdom that the world possesses, was introduced by lunatics.
— Honore-Gabriel Riqueti De Mirabeau
Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
— Honore De Balzac
Imagination helps bring out the realism of every detail and only sees the beauties of the work.
— Honore De Balzac
Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
— Honore De Balzac
Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.
— Honore De Balzac
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.
— Honore De Balzac
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
— Honore De Balzac
The union of a want and a sentiment.
— Honore De Balzac