Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery… — Honore de Balzac Affection Copy Share Image
Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all. — Honore de Balzac Ends Copy Share Image
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white… — Honore de Balzac Heart Copy Share Image
For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially… — Honore de Balzac Insight Copy Share Image
A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination. — Honore de Balzac Creation Copy Share Image
There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire… — Honore de Balzac Dropping Copy Share Image
Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome… — Honore de Balzac Gems Copy Share Image
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond… — Honore de Balzac Fond memories Copy Share Image
Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul. — Honore de Balzac Character Copy Share Image
All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions,… — Honore de Balzac Courage Copy Share Image
For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth. — Honore de Balzac Christianity Copy Share Image
“I had youth, beauty, two advantages conferred by chance, and of which we are as proud as if they were hard-won.” — Honoré de Balzac Beauty Copy Share Image
It's not enough to be a good person. You also have to show it. — Honore de Balzac Being a good person Copy Share Image
Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they're strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power's so… — Honore de Balzac Beautiful Copy Share Image
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. — Honore de Balzac Art Copy Share Image
Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about… — Honore de Balzac Children Copy Share Image
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one. — Honore de Balzac Chivalry Copy Share Image
“The deeper the feeling the less demonstrative will be the expression of it.” — Honoré de Balzac Acting Copy Share Image
A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may… — Honore de Balzac Bed Copy Share Image
In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted. — Honore de Balzac Affair Copy Share Image
“You haven't yet given me the right to obey you when you say: 'I want to.” — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Fathers must always be giving if they would be happy themselves; always giving — they would not be fathers else.” — Honoré de Balzac Fathers Copy Share Image
“There is something noble as well as terrible about suicide. The downfall of many men is not dangerous, for they fall like… — Honoré de Balzac Balzac Copy Share Image
Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her. — Honore de Balzac Angel Copy Share Image
