There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier. — Honore de Balzac Feels Copy Share Image
A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her… — Honore de Balzac Costumes Copy Share Image
When passion is not fed, it changes to need. At this juncture, marriage becomes a fixed idea in the mind of the… — Honore de Balzac Appropriate Copy Share Image
Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God. — Honore de Balzac Certain Copy Share Image
For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life. — Honore de Balzac Beacons Copy Share Image
“Soon this mass of ideas became harmonized, took life, seemed, as it were, to become a living individual and moved in the… — Honoré de Balzac Life Copy Share Image
“He had eaten as much as a travelling actor and drunk like the sands of the desert" Maxence Gilet” — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true — Honore de Balzac Confidence Copy Share Image
As soon as man seeks to penetrate the secrets of Nature--in which nothing is secret and it is but a question of… — Honore de Balzac Men Copy Share Image
If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and… — Honore de Balzac Enemy Copy Share Image
Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives. — Honore de Balzac Creative Copy Share Image
“What place indeed is there in the shallow petty frivolous thing called society for noble thoughts and feelings?” — Honoré de Balzac Community Copy Share Image
A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him… — Honore de Balzac Appeals Copy Share Image
Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows… — Honore de Balzac Aspect Copy Share Image
Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth. — Honore de Balzac Earth Copy Share Image
God reveals Himself, unfailingly, to the solitary, thoughtful seeker — Honore de Balzac God Copy Share Image
Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands. — Honore de Balzac Bachelors Copy Share Image
A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness.… — Honore de Balzac Adore Copy Share Image
“She was, as you know already without as yet knowing anything, the Lily of this valley, where she grew for heaven, filling… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
The prodigality of millionaires is comparable only to their greed of gain. Let some whim or passion seize them and money is… — Honore de Balzac Accounts Copy Share Image
A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness. — Honore de Balzac Bedroom 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
