The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been… — Honore de Balzac Accounts Copy Share Image
Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers. — Honore de Balzac Amount Copy Share Image
A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought. — Honore de Balzac Beautiful Copy Share Image
Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies… — Honore de Balzac Apathetic Copy Share Image
“Instead of inspiring the gallant attentions which other women seek, she made men dream,” — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit… — Honore de Balzac Break Copy Share Image
“True love is eternal, infinite and always like itself. It's always equal and pure. Without violent demonstrations: It is seen with white… — Honore de Balzac Love Copy Share Image
We have long struggles with ourself, of which the outcome is one of our actions; they are, as it were, the inner… — Honore de Balzac Action Copy Share Image
Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for… — Honore de Balzac Bent Copy Share Image
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent… — Honore de Balzac Flower Copy Share Image
“Conscience, my dear, is a kind of stick that everyone picks up to thrash his neighbor with, but one he never uses… — Honoré de Balzac Ethics Copy Share Image
What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended? — Honore de Balzac Children 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
In the silence of their studios, busied for days at a time with works which leave the mind relatively free, painters become… — Honore de Balzac Facts Copy Share Image
The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the… — Honore de Balzac Acquire Copy Share Image
There are moments in life when all we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would… — Honore de Balzac Bears Copy Share Image
Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your… — Honore de Balzac Balls Copy Share Image
A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage. — Honore de Balzac Advantage Copy Share Image
What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden… — Honore de Balzac Character Copy Share Image
