The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money. — Honore de Balzac Deals Copy Share Image
Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest. — Honore de Balzac Bears Copy Share Image
Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects. — Honore de Balzac Advantage Copy Share Image
Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something… — Honore de Balzac Beauty Copy Share Image
Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in… — Honore de Balzac Angel Copy Share Image
The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and… — Honore de Balzac Business Copy Share Image
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness. — Honore de Balzac Courtesy Copy Share Image
“Ah! Lord God in heaven! how ill Thy world is ordered! Thou hast a Son, if what they tell us is true,… — Honoré de Balzac Lord god Copy Share Image
In France, and at the most important period of our history, Catherine de' Medici has suffered more from popular error than any… — Honoré De Balzac Face to face Copy Share Image
She who is really a wife, one in heart, flesh, and bone, must follow wherever he leads, in whom her life, her… — Honore de Balzac Bones Copy Share Image
The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends. — Honore de Balzac Common Copy Share Image
For businessmen, the world is a bale of banknotes in circulation; for most young men, it is a woman; for some women,… — Honore de Balzac Businessman Copy Share Image
For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed. — Honore de Balzac Bed 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
Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it… — Honore de Balzac Accustomed Copy Share Image
Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls? — Honore de Balzac Empty Copy Share Image
To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when… — Honore de Balzac Add Copy Share Image
One of the glories of society is to have created woman where Nature had made only a female; to have created a… — Honore de Balzac Continuity Copy Share Image
Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which… — Honore de Balzac Amused Copy Share Image
The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal… — Honore de Balzac Action Copy Share Image
No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea. — Honore de Balzac Conjugal Copy Share Image
