In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity. — Honore de Balzac Beauty Copy Share Image
When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary. — Honore de Balzac Dog Copy Share Image
God reveals Himself, unfailingly, to the solitary, thoughtful seeker — Honore de Balzac God Copy Share Image
Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice. — Honore de Balzac Choice Copy Share Image
Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind. — Honore de Balzac Intellectual Copy Share Image
To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought. — Honore de Balzac Abstract Copy Share Image
Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation. — Honore de Balzac Anticipation Copy Share Image
It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome. — Honore de Balzac Lying Copy Share Image
In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it. — Honore de Balzac Artist Copy Share Image
Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man. — Honore de Balzac Accounts Copy Share Image
Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. — Honore de Balzac Action Copy Share Image
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. — Honore de Balzac Art Copy Share Image
“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 Emotions Copy Share Image
Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical… — Honore de Balzac Life 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 Female Copy Share Image
A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other. — Honore de Balzac Impart Copy Share Image
A girl's coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside; a woman's coquetry… — Honore de Balzac Coquetry Copy Share Image
All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions,… — Honore de Balzac Courage Copy Share Image
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 Art Copy Share Image
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 Aliens Copy Share Image
Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to… — Honore de Balzac Credulous Copy Share Image
The fashions we call English in Paris are French in London, and vice versa. Franco-British hostility vanishes when it comes to questions… — Honore de Balzac British Copy Share Image
A husband can commit no greater blunder than to discuss his wife, if she is virtuous, with his mistress; unless it be… — Honore de Balzac Beautiful Copy Share Image
It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that… — Honore de Balzac Absurd Copy Share Image
Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth. — Honore de Balzac Earth Copy Share Image
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. — Honore de Balzac Power Copy Share Image
It's not enough to be a good person. You also have to show it. — Honore de Balzac Being a good person Copy Share Image
To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect. — Honore de Balzac Comedy Copy Share Image
Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds. — Honore de Balzac Catapult Copy Share Image
A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die. — Honore de Balzac Dies Copy Share Image
At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise. — Honore de Balzac Beauty Copy Share Image
Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings. — Honore de Balzac Education Copy Share Image
