Heart Quotes by Honoré de Balzac

You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth.

— Honore de Balzac

Economized love is never real love

— Honore De Balzac

Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.

— Honore de Balzac

Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts.

— Honore de Balzac

The man whom fate employs to awaken love in the heart of a young girl is often unaware of his work and…

— Honore de Balzac

Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.

— Honore de Balzac

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

— Honore de Balzac

If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way…

— Honore de Balzac

Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.

— Honore de Balzac

The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.

— 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

The causes that govern the heart appear to be wholly alien to the results achieved. Are the forces that moved a desperate…

— 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

Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward…

— Honore de Balzac

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

Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery…

— Honore de Balzac

There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire…

— Honore de Balzac

“Of necessity she went further in aversion than she had gone in love, for her hatred was not in proportion to her…

— Honoré de Balzac

What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden…

— Honore de Balzac

“Was she acting entirely consciously? No: women are always sincere, even in the midst of their most shocking duplicities, because it is…

— Honoré de Balzac

Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.

— Honore de Balzac

White hair often covers the head, but the heart that holds it is ever young.

— Honore de Balzac

Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?

— Honore de Balzac

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

— Honore de Balzac

Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts.

— Honore de Balzac

Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.

— Honore de Balzac

Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.

— Honore de Balzac

He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.

— Honore de Balzac

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

— Honore de Balzac

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

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

The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to…

— Honore de Balzac

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white…

— Honore de Balzac

On the moral plane, true friends enjoy the same protection as the sense of smell confers upon dogs. They scent the sorrow…

— Honore de Balzac

When an intelligent man reaches the point of inviting self-explanation and offers surrendering the key to his heart, he is assuredly riding…

— Honore de Balzac

A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her…

— Honore de Balzac

The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in…

— Honore de Balzac

She who is really a wife, one in heart, flesh, and bone, must follow wherever he leads, in whom her life, her…

— Honore de Balzac

The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion…

— Honore de Balzac

“Is there any instinct more deeply implanted in the heart of man than the pride of protection, a protection which is constantly…

— Honoré de Balzac