Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?] — Honore de Balzac Doe Copy Share Image
They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse… — Honore de Balzac Bed Copy Share Image
“Of necessity she went further in aversion than she had gone in love, for her hatred was not in proportion to her… — Honoré de Balzac Emotions Copy Share Image
“So often it happens that this one or that stands condemned by the social laws that govern family relations; and yet there… — Honoré de Balzac Family Copy Share Image
Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything. — Honore de Balzac Ends Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power. — Honore de Balzac Power Copy Share Image
There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances. — Honore de Balzac Art Copy Share Image
Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity. — Honore de Balzac Immensity Copy Share Image
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time. — Honore de Balzac Catching Copy Share Image
When an intelligent man reaches the point of inviting self-explanation and offers surrendering the key to his heart, he is assuredly riding… — Honore de Balzac Explanation Copy Share Image
In a husband, there is only a man; in a married woman, there is a man, a father, a mother and a… — Honore de Balzac Father Copy Share Image
He's got his dog trained so that it only does it on newspapers. The trouble is it does it when he's reading… — Honore de Balzac Doe Copy Share Image
It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no… — Honore de Balzac Compelled Copy Share Image
A courage which looks easy and yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons -… — Honore de Balzac Courage Copy Share Image
Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he… — Honore de Balzac Action Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness… — Honore de Balzac Difficult Copy Share Image
The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in… — Honore de Balzac Affection Copy Share Image
Isn't it really quite extraordinary to see that, since man took his first step, no one has asked himself why he walks,… — Honore de Balzac Achieve Copy Share Image
The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot. — Honore de Balzac Believe Copy Share Image
It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of… — Honore de Balzac Ambition Copy Share Image
A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely… — Honore de Balzac Concealed Copy Share Image
The key to all sciences is unquestionably the question mark. To the word How? we owe most of our greatest discoveries. Wisdom… — Honore de Balzac All occasions Copy Share Image
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