The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
For the person who loves God, worship is the daily bread of patience. — Honore de Balzac Bread Copy Share Image
To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility. — Honore de Balzac Drunk Copy Share Image
Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not. — Honore de Balzac Character Copy Share Image
Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed. — Honore de Balzac Desire Copy Share Image
To our shame a woman is never so much attached to us as when we suffer — Honore De Balzac Men and women Copy Share Image
A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over. — Honore de Balzac Bride Copy Share Image
Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light. — Honore de Balzac Heart Copy Share Image
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own. — Honore de Balzac Happiness Copy Share Image
For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“I shall still live on as a memory on your palette; that shall be life for me afterward.” — Honoré de Balzac Afterlife Copy Share Image
Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency. — Honore de Balzac Decency Copy Share Image
People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
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 Dismay Copy Share Image
It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss… — Honore de Balzac Affair Copy Share Image
It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
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 Beautiful Copy Share Image
Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in… — Honore de Balzac Angel Copy Share Image
Poles offer a mobility like that of the wind that blows over the immense plains and marches of Poland. Show a Pole… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“She is right,” said the baroness. “We are sent into the world to marry.” “Do you encourage her in disobedience?” said the… — Honoré de Balzac Marriage Copy Share Image
“So often it happens that this one or that stands condemned by the social laws that govern family relations; and yet there… — Honoré de Balzac Family Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the… — Honore de Balzac Book Copy Share Image
A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
In France, and at the most important period of our history, Catherine de' Medici has suffered more from popular error than any… — Honoré De Balzac Face to face Copy Share Image
Isn't it really quite extraordinary to see that, since man took his first step, no one has asked himself why he walks,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of… — Honore de Balzac Ark Copy Share Image
Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me.… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance — Honore de Balzac Every moment Copy Share Image
By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate. — Honore de Balzac Resignation Copy Share Image
