Pleasure Quotes by Honoré de Balzac

Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!

— Honore de Balzac

Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.

— Honore de Balzac

“perhaps love is only gratitude for pleasure.”

— Honoré de Balzac

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

— Honore de Balzac

And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

— Honore de Balzac

It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness…

— Honore de Balzac

Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even…

— Honore de Balzac

“Happy?" asked Aquilina, with dreadful look, and a smile full of pity and terror. "Ah, you do not know what it is…

— Honoré de Balzac

Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to…

— Honore de Balzac

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

— Honore de Balzac

“Man cannot spend all his time doing evil, and even in the company of pirates there must be some sweet moments on…

— Honoré de Balzac

We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer,…

— Honore de Balzac

Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them,…

— Honore de Balzac

For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a…

— Honore de Balzac

The pleasures of love proceed successively from a distich to a quatrain, from a quatrain to a sonnet, from a sonnet to…

— Honore de Balzac

Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an…

— Honore de Balzac

How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene. 'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,' observed the tempter. 'I'd want to…

— Honore 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