Doe Quotes by Honoré de Balzac

The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes.

— Honore de Balzac

A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

— Honore de Balzac

Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.

— Honore de Balzac

Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.

— Honore de Balzac

But does not happiness come from the soul within?

— Honore de Balzac

Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency.

— Honore de Balzac

Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire.

— Honore de Balzac

The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.

— Honore de Balzac

Does not any limit imposed upon one inspire a desire to go beyond it? Does not our keenest suffering arise when our…

— Honore de Balzac

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

To man, faith; to woman, doubt. She bears the heavier burden. Does not woman invariably suffer for two?

— Honore de Balzac

Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality,…

— Honore de Balzac

Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all…

— Honore de Balzac

Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he…

— Honore de Balzac

Though your vulgarian does not readily admit that feelings can change overnight, certainly two lovers often part far more abruptly than they…

— Honore de Balzac

Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?]

— Honore de Balzac

A lui la foi, a' elle le doute, a' elle le fardeau le plus lourd: la femme ne souffre-t-elle pas toujours pour…

— Honore de Balzac

If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the…

— Honore de Balzac

When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.

— Honore de Balzac

Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.

— Honore de Balzac

In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.

— Honore de Balzac