“Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we… — 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
Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Oh, my friend, when you love, love a woman whom you are sure that you can love always. Never forsake a woman.” — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
“You have broken the ice, though you have not even scratched its glossy surface: you have placed your hand upon the croup of the… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts. — 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 of the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy. — 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 the lion… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
