Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a… — Honore de Balzac Constancy Copy Share Image
The man whom fate employs to awaken love in the heart of a young girl is often unaware of his work and… — Honore de Balzac Fate Copy Share Image
Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will… — Honore de Balzac Aversion Copy Share Image
The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty. — Honore de Balzac Beauty Copy Share Image
Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity. — Honore de Balzac Books Copy Share Image
Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Femeile pot iubi fara a fi fericite si pot fi fericite fara a iubi. A iubi si a fi fericita, a intruni… — Honoré de Balzac Amor Copy Share Image
“The faint hints of color in her complexion, her tawny blond hair, her extraordinary thinness, all spoke of that unearthly grace modern… — Honoré de Balzac Poetry Copy Share Image
A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in… — Honore de Balzac Drama Copy Share Image
Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice… — Honore de Balzac Anarchist Copy Share Image
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for… — Honore de Balzac Absolutes Copy Share Image
“However," he continued, "this canvas is preferable to the paintings of that varlet Rubens, with his mountains of Flemish flesh sprinkled with… — Honoré de Balzac Art Copy Share Image
The weakest being on earth can accomplish feats of strength. The frailest urchin will ring every doorbell on the street in arctic… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness. — Honore de Balzac Age Copy Share Image
The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Unluckily, Governments cannot be enlightened, and a Government which regards itself as a diffuser of light is the least open to enlightenment.” — Honoré de Balzac Buddhism Copy Share Image
In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness. — Honore de Balzac Doubt Copy Share Image
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action. — Honore de Balzac Action Copy Share Image
A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother! — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief. — Honore de Balzac Anxious Copy Share Image
Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity. — Honore de Balzac Immensity Copy Share Image
Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance. — Honore de Balzac Argument Copy Share Image
“N'y a-t-il pas des pensées, des actions qui, en amour, équivalent, pour certaines âmes, à de saintes fiancailles!” — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain. — Honore de Balzac Disdain Copy Share Image
Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken… — Honore de Balzac Caprice Copy Share Image
“Yes, I can understand that a man might go to gambling table - when he sees that all that lies between himself… — Honore de Balzac Balzac Copy Share Image
The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does. — Honore de Balzac Body Copy Share Image
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. — Honore de Balzac Forgiveness Copy Share Image
To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman. — Honore de Balzac Devotion Copy Share Image
Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man. — Honore de Balzac Dictionary Copy Share Image
Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love. — Honore de Balzac Apprehension Copy Share Image
“Our Father in heaven is surely on the side of fathers on earth who love their children.” — Honoré de Balzac Children Copy Share Image
