A woman questions the man who loves exactly as a judge questions a criminal. This being so, a flash of the eye,… — Honore de Balzac Attempting Copy Share Image
In France everything is a matter for jest. People make quips about the scaffold, about Napoleon's defeat on the banks of The… — Honore de Balzac Barricades Copy Share Image
The secret of the nobility and beauty of great ladies lies in the art with which they can shed their veils. In… — Honore de Balzac Ancient Copy Share Image
Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me.… — Honore de Balzac Accusing Copy Share Image
We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the… — Honore de Balzac Book Copy Share Image
“Was she acting entirely consciously? No: women are always sincere, even in the midst of their most shocking duplicities, because it is… — Honoré de Balzac Dignity Copy Share Image
A woman who has made fun of her husband can love him no more — Honore De Balzac Husband Copy Share Image
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow. — Honore de Balzac Amount Copy Share Image
To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. — Honore de Balzac Genuine Copy Share Image
Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues. — Honore de Balzac Character Copy Share Image
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done. — Honore de Balzac Business Copy Share Image
A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over. — Honore de Balzac Bride Copy Share Image
Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will. — Honore de Balzac Feelings Copy Share Image
We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing. — Honore de Balzac Care Copy Share Image
Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word. — Honore de Balzac Break 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
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
“¿No hay que haberlo experimentado todo para poder expresarlo todo? Y sentir vivamente, ¿no es sufrir? Por consiguiente, las poesías no se… — Honoré de Balzac Amor 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
Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand… — Honore de Balzac Demand Copy Share Image
Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of… — Honore de Balzac Chance 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
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
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
The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the… — Honore de Balzac Age Copy Share Image
“Love is the most melodious of all harmonies and the sentiment of love is innate. Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure,… — Honore de Balzac Love Copy Share Image
A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other. — Honore de Balzac Impart Copy Share Image
At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman. — Honore de Balzac Beauty Copy Share Image
