Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves! — Honore de Balzac Girl Copy Share Image
How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return? — Honore de Balzac Envy Copy Share Image
A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her. — Honore de Balzac Husband Copy Share Image
No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion. — Honore de Balzac Catholic Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a great talent without great willpower.” — Honoré de Balzac Discipline Copy Share Image
The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption. — Honore de Balzac Claims Copy Share Image
Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty. — Honore de Balzac Beauty Copy Share Image
Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity. — Honore de Balzac Books 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
Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he… — Honore de Balzac Action Copy Share Image
They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse… — Honore de Balzac Bed 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 Friend love Copy Share Image
Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not… — Honore de Balzac Clubs Copy Share Image
“The faint hints of color in her complexion, her tawny blond hair, her extraordinary thinness, all spoke of that unearthly grace modern… — Honoré de Balzac Poetry Copy Share Image
Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward… — Honore de Balzac Character Copy Share Image
Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the… — Honore de Balzac Careless Copy Share Image
The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in… — Honore de Balzac Alchemy Copy Share Image
“However, she wouldn't be the first person to mistrust her nearest and dearest yet confide in the first stranger who comes along:… — Honoré de Balzac First person Copy Share Image
“The words came from him like a sob, a hoarse sound like the death rattle of a dying man; it seemed indeed… — Honoré de Balzac Death Copy Share Image
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty… — Honore de Balzac Every day Copy Share Image
The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe… — Honore de Balzac Believe Copy Share Image
“If you decide to join up with me, I want it to be because you're making a rational choice, not because you've… — Honoré de Balzac Choice Copy Share Image
Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion. — Honore de Balzac Absolutes Copy Share Image
One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others. — Honore de Balzac Detestable Copy Share Image
A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely… — Honore de Balzac Concealed Copy Share Image
Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief. — Honore de Balzac Anxious Copy Share Image
Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit. — Honore de Balzac Enjoy Copy Share Image
Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother! — Honore de Balzac Bitter Copy Share Image
Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance. — Honore de Balzac Argument Copy Share Image
Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity. — Honore de Balzac Immensity Copy Share Image
Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness. — Honore de Balzac Age Copy Share Image
Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike. — Honore de Balzac Force Copy Share Image
Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners. — Honore de Balzac Articles Copy Share Image
The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is… — Honore de Balzac Deceive Copy Share Image
“Unluckily, Governments cannot be enlightened, and a Government which regards itself as a diffuser of light is the least open to enlightenment.” — Honoré de Balzac Buddhism Copy Share Image
And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink. — Honore de Balzac Drink Copy Share Image
In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge. — Honore de Balzac Carriage Copy Share Image
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