“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 Friendship 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… — Honoré de Balzac Humor Copy Share Image
In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity. — Honore de Balzac Beauty 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… — Honore de Balzac Beautiful Copy Share Image
My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts. — Honore de Balzac Knows 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… — Honore de Balzac Bird Copy Share Image
A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne. — Honore de Balzac Know how 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… — Honore de Balzac Admiration 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… — Honore de Balzac Flames 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… — Honore de Balzac Ark 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,… — Honore de Balzac Bears Copy Share Image
The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does. — Honore de Balzac Body Copy Share Image
Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong,… — Honore de Balzac Add Copy Share Image
What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude. — Honore de Balzac Certainty Copy Share Image
Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity? — Honore de Balzac Crush Copy Share Image
Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion. — Honore de Balzac Compassion Copy Share Image
“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 Civilization Copy Share Image
When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and… — Honore de Balzac Attractive Copy Share Image
Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law.… — Honore de Balzac Attorney Copy Share Image
There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or… — Honore de Balzac Aspect Copy Share Image
True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love! — Honore de Balzac Difficult Copy Share Image
To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility. — Honore de Balzac Drunk Copy Share Image
