Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. — Honore de Balzac Despotism Copy Share Image
When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it. — Honore de Balzac Advantage Copy Share Image
Man judges of nature in relation to itself; the angelic spirit judges of it in relation to heaven. In short, to the… — Honore de Balzac Angel Copy Share Image
“He had eaten as much as a travelling actor and drunk like the sands of the desert" Maxence Gilet” — Honoré de Balzac Drunk Copy Share Image
Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice. — Honore de Balzac Action Copy Share Image
Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many… — Honore de Balzac Charity Copy Share Image
As soon as man seeks to penetrate the secrets of Nature--in which nothing is secret and it is but a question of… — Honore de Balzac Men Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some… — Honore de Balzac Admiration Copy Share Image
“True love is eternal, infinite and always like itself. It's always equal and pure. Without violent demonstrations: It is seen with white… — Honore de Balzac Love Copy Share Image
Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
What patient can trust the knowledge of a physician without reputation or furniture, in a period when publicity is all-powerful and when… — Honore de Balzac Concorde Copy Share Image
Alas, two men are often necessary to provide a woman with a perfect lover, just as in literature a writer composes a… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority… — Honore de Balzac Feminism Copy Share Image
Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows. — Honore de Balzac Investment Copy Share Image
Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her. — Honore de Balzac Angel Copy Share Image
“Mes enfants, you mustn't go at things head-on, you are too weak; take it from me and take it from an angle...… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings. — Honore de Balzac Action Copy Share Image
He's got his dog trained so that it only does it on newspapers. The trouble is it does it when he's reading… — Honore de Balzac Animal Copy Share Image
A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all… — Honore de Balzac Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Doing his utmost, deploying all his energy, a young man setting out from zero can wind up after ten years somewhere below… — Honoré de Balzac Career Copy Share Image
White hair often covers the head, but the heart that holds it is ever young. — Honore de Balzac Age Copy Share Image
Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing… — Honore de Balzac Couple Copy Share Image
When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned. — Honore de Balzac Action Copy Share Image
“The duchess turned on Eugène with one of those insolent stares that envelop a man from head to foot, flatten him out,… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way. — Honore de Balzac Husband Copy Share Image
The questioning spirit is the rebellious spirit. A rebellion isalways either a cloak to hide a prince, or the swaddling wrapper of… — Honoré De Balzac Copy Share Image
It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a… — Honore de Balzac Every moment Copy Share Image
Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless. — Honore de Balzac Granada Copy Share Image
Le bonheur engloutit nos forces, comme le malheur e teint nos vertus. Happiness engulfs our strength, just as misfortune extinguishes our virtues. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife. — Honore de Balzac Advice Copy Share Image
To man, faith; to woman, doubt. She bears the heavier burden. Does not woman invariably suffer for two? — Honore de Balzac Bears Copy Share Image
Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue. — Honore de Balzac Enigmas Copy Share Image
“The word 'love,' used in connection with the reproduction of our species, is the most odious blasphemy taught in our times.” — Honoré de Balzac Blasphemy Copy Share Image
