The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste. — Honore de Balzac Chaste Copy Share Image
The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger. — Honore de Balzac Despair Copy Share Image
The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion… — Honore de Balzac Anxiety Copy Share Image
The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. — Honore de Balzac Absolutes Copy Share Image
“Parent may hinder their children's marriage; but children cannot interfere with the insane acts of their parents in their second childhood.” — Honoré de Balzac Child Copy Share Image
Un mari, comme un gouvernement, ne doit jamais avouer de faute. A husband, like a government, never needs to admit a fault. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
It is not enough to be an upright man, we must be seen to be one; society does not exist on moral… — Honore De Balzac Ideas Copy Share Image
Constancy will always be the genius of love, the indication of that strength which constitutes the poet. A man should possess all… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something… — Honore de Balzac Beauty Copy Share Image
But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of… — Honore de Balzac Enchantment Copy Share Image
The secret of the nobility and beauty of great ladies lies in the art with which they can shed their veils. In… — Honore de Balzac Ancient Copy Share Image
She who is really a wife, one in heart, flesh, and bone, must follow wherever he leads, in whom her life, her… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“The rout, that dreary review of fashionable fineries, that parade of well-dressed self-infatuations, is one of those English inventions currently mechanifying the… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. — Honore de Balzac Belief Copy Share Image
Your women of fashion ceases to be a woman. She is neither mother, nor wife, nor lover. She is, medically speaking, sex… — Honore de Balzac Brain Copy Share Image
He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a… — Honore de Balzac Catholic Copy Share Image
One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. — Honore de Balzac Husbands Copy Share Image
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one. — Honore de Balzac Chivalry Copy Share Image
We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too… — Honore de Balzac Proverb Copy Share Image
The innocence of virgins is like milk which turns when exposed to a clap of thunder, to a tart smell, to a… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Opinions are caught like infection, and put into practice without examination.” — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“who had not felt his daughter’s heart beat against his breast for ten years, “do you want me to die of joy?” — Honoré de Balzac Children Copy Share Image
A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his… — Honore de Balzac Clergy Copy Share Image
For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds. — Honore de Balzac Exaggeration Copy Share Image
A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination. — Honore de Balzac Creation Copy Share Image
Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them. — Honore de Balzac Feelings Copy Share Image
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. — Honore de Balzac Art Copy Share Image
The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy. — Honore de Balzac Creativity Copy Share Image
A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
In family life people almost always adjust themselves to misfortune. They make a bed of it and hope makes them accept that… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
