Love Quotes by Honoré de Balzac

One hour of love has a whole life in it.

— Honore de Balzac

Love knows nothing of modesty.

— Honore de Balzac

Sects differ more in name than tenets.

— Honore de Balzac

“perhaps love is only gratitude for pleasure.”

— Honoré de Balzac

The union of a want and a sentiment.

— Honore de Balzac

To speak of love is to make love.

— Honore de Balzac

Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

— Honore de Balzac

We love because we love.

— Honore de Balzac

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

— Honore de Balzac

To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.

— Honore de Balzac

Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will.

— Honore de Balzac

Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights.

— Honore de Balzac

There is nothing original; all is reflected light.

— Honore de Balzac

There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.

— Honore de Balzac

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

— Honore de Balzac

The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them.

— Honore de Balzac

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white…

— Honore de Balzac

“Of necessity she went further in aversion than she had gone in love, for her hatred was not in proportion to her…

— Honoré de Balzac

Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome…

— Honore de Balzac

Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.

— Honore de Balzac

No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.

— Honore de Balzac

Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street…

— Honore de Balzac

A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry.

— Honore de Balzac

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with…

— Honore de Balzac

True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without…

— Honore de Balzac

Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains;…

— Honore de Balzac

“If you have any mind to keep my respect, I recommend you not to add imbecility to these qualities by imagining that…

— Honoré de Balzac

Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest…

— Honore de Balzac

A girl's coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside; a woman's coquetry…

— Honore de Balzac

Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most…

— Honore de Balzac

At thirty years a woman asks her lover to give her back the esteem she has forfeited for his sake; she lives…

— Honore de Balzac

Beaucoup d'hommes ont un orgueil qui les pousse a' cacher leurs combats et a' ne se montrer que victorieux. Many men have…

— Honore de Balzac

“No one ought even to desert a woman after throwing her a heap of gold in her distress! He ought to love…

— Honoré de Balzac

Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains;…

— Honoré De Balzac

However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates…

— Honore de Balzac

“Was she acting entirely consciously? No: women are always sincere, even in the midst of their most shocking duplicities, because it is…

— Honoré de Balzac

Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.

— Honore de Balzac

The more you judge, the less you love.

— Honore de Balzac

All we are is in the soul.

— Honore de Balzac

He who best knows the world will love it least.

— Honore de Balzac