Two Quotes by Honoré 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

Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.

— Honore de Balzac

Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly.

— Honore de Balzac

Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or…

— Honore de Balzac

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

— Honore de Balzac

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

— Honore de Balzac

There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.

— Honore de Balzac

There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier.

— Honore de Balzac

Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest…

— Honore de Balzac

Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise…

— Honore de Balzac

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and…

— Honore de Balzac

Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most…

— Honore de Balzac

It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary…

— Honore de Balzac

Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand,…

— Honore de Balzac

Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no…

— Honore de Balzac

Alas, two men are often necessary to provide a woman with a perfect lover, just as in literature a writer composes a…

— 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

Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.

— Honore de Balzac

Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.

— Honore de Balzac

One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of…

— Honore de Balzac

Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one…

— Honore de Balzac