To have fame follow us is well, but it is not a desirable avant-courier. — Honore de Balzac Desirable Copy Share Image
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. — Honore de Balzac Bureaucracy Copy Share Image
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 Asks Copy Share Image
When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in… — Honore de Balzac Action Copy Share Image
“Yes,' Montriveau went on in an unsteady voice, 'this Catholic faith to which you wish to convert me is a lie that… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves! — Honore de Balzac Girl Copy Share Image
No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game… — Honore de Balzac Afar Copy Share Image
In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it. — Honore de Balzac Deals Copy Share Image
The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them. — Honore de Balzac Love Copy Share Image
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity. — Honore de Balzac Familiarity Copy Share Image
“Some sentiment other than love united these two beings, and inspired with mutual anxiety their movements and their thoughts. Misery is, perhaps,… — Honoré de Balzac Love Copy Share Image
“There are men who put the weight of a coffin into their deliberations as they bargain for Cashmere shawls for their wives,… — Honore de Balzac Dear ones Copy Share Image
“The joy of those noisy and splendid groups was visible; that of Ginevra and Luigi was buried in their bosom. On one… — Honoré de Balzac Happiness Copy Share Image
A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers. — Honore de Balzac Careful Copy Share Image
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own. — Honore de Balzac Happiness Copy Share Image
A lui la foi, a' elle le doute, a' elle le fardeau le plus lourd: la femme ne souffre-t-elle pas toujours pour… — Honore de Balzac Doe Copy Share Image
Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready… — Honore de Balzac Choices Copy Share Image
There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile. — Honore de Balzac Pregnancy Copy Share Image
Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality,… — Honore de Balzac Divine 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
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 Ballads Copy Share Image
Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect. — Honore de Balzac Disrespect Copy Share Image
