Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues. — Honore de Balzac Character Copy Share Image
Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature. — Honore de Balzac Art Copy Share Image
“Fathers must always be giving if they would be happy themselves; always giving — they would not be fathers else.” — Honoré de Balzac Fathers Copy Share Image
“Existe esa clase de goces que solamente pueden saborearse entre dos, de poeta a poeta, de corazón a corazón.” — Honoré de Balzac Amor Copy Share Image
The questioning spirit is the rebellious spirit. A rebellion is always either a cloak to hide a prince, or the swaddling wrapper… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person… — Honore de Balzac Bird Copy Share Image
Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. — Honore de Balzac Art Copy Share Image
“First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.” — Honoré de Balzac First love Copy Share Image
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 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;… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The key to all sciences is unquestionably the question mark. To the word How? we owe most of our greatest discoveries. Wisdom… — Honore de Balzac All occasions Copy Share Image
The fame of surgeons resembles the fame of actors, who live only during their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable… — Honore de Balzac Actors Copy Share Image
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 Femme Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us… — Honore de Balzac Character Copy Share Image
Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“The more he saw, the more he doubted. He watched men narrowly, and saw how, beneath the surface, courage was often rashness;… — Honore de Balzac Beneath the surface Copy Share Image
“There are men who put the weight of a coffin into their deliberations as they bargain for Cashmere shawls for their wives,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Here comes Mamma Vauquerr, fair as a starrr; and strung up like a bunch of carrots. Aren't we suffocating ourselves a wee… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
“This tragic short story was written in 1829 and published in 1830 in La Mode, followed by another edition in the Gosselin… — Honoré de Balzac Short story Copy Share Image
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 Ardent Copy Share Image
Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages.… — Honore de Balzac Agitated Copy Share Image
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 Ambition Copy Share Image
A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe. — Honore de Balzac Dupe Copy Share Image
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane. — Honore de Balzac Champagne Copy Share Image
To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved. — Honore de Balzac Inspirational Copy Share Image
When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
