Feelings Quotes by Honoré de Balzac

Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.

— Honore de Balzac

Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will.

— Honore de Balzac

Life is simply what out feelings do to us.

— Honore de Balzac

“The deeper the feeling the less demonstrative will be the expression of it.”

— Honoré de Balzac

Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.

— Honore de Balzac

Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.

— Honore de Balzac

Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity.

— Honore de Balzac

The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.

— 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

Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.

— Honore de Balzac

The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.

— Honore de Balzac

Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among…

— Honore de Balzac

L'amour n'est pas seulement un sentiment, il est un art aussi. Love is not only a feeling; it is also an art.

— Honore de Balzac

A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him…

— Honore de Balzac

Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to…

— Honore de Balzac

One admirable trait in women is their lack of illusions about themselves. They never reason about their most blameworthy actions; their feelings…

— Honore de Balzac

Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore…

— Honore de Balzac

If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events…

— Honore de Balzac

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

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

Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by…

— Honore de Balzac

I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.

— Honore de Balzac

Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them.

— Honore de Balzac

What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

— Honore de Balzac

Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.

— Honore de Balzac

Nos beaux sentiments ne sont-ils pas les poe sies de la volonte ? Aren't our best feelings poetry of the will?

— Honore de Balzac