Men Quotes by Honoré de Balzac

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

— Honore de Balzac

A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.

— Honore de Balzac

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

— Honore de Balzac

Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.

— Honore de Balzac

The glutton is much more than an animal and much less than a man.

— Honore de Balzac

Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?

— Honore de Balzac

Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.

— Honore de Balzac

The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot.

— Honore de Balzac

I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make…

— Honore de Balzac

Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.

— Honore de Balzac

Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.

— Honore de Balzac

Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to…

— Honore de Balzac

Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.

— Honore de Balzac

Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at…

— Honore de Balzac

Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they're strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power's so…

— Honore de Balzac

In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted.

— Honore de Balzac

In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the…

— Honore de Balzac

A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is,…

— 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

Un homme n'a jamais pu e lever sa ma|"tresse jusqu'a' lui; mais une femme place toujours son amant aussi haut qu'elle. A…

— Honore de Balzac

He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the…

— Honore de Balzac

One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was…

— Honore de Balzac

The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes…

— Honore de Balzac

According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between…

— Honore 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

Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying…

— Honore de Balzac

A sick man, surrounded by those who love him, nursed by those who wish earnestly that he should live, will recover (all…

— Honore de Balzac

God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

— Honore de Balzac

Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.

— Honore de Balzac

The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.

— Honore de Balzac

When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.

— Honore de Balzac

For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.

— Honore de Balzac

Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.

— Honore de Balzac

Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.

— Honore de Balzac

The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.

— Honore de Balzac

A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent.

— Honore de Balzac

Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

— Honore de Balzac

Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.

— Honore de Balzac

In smart society men are jealous of one another after the fashion of women.

— Honore de Balzac

Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers.

— Honore de Balzac