A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste. — Honore de Balzac Chaste Copy Share Image
Love is the only passion which suffers neither past nor future. — Honore de Balzac Love Copy Share Image
“However, she wouldn't be the first person to mistrust her nearest and dearest yet confide in the first stranger who comes along:… — Honoré de Balzac First person Copy Share Image
Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity. — Honore de Balzac Books Copy Share Image
Courage is the fire that burns in the cold,dark room of fear and doubt that we live in. — Honore De Balzac Courage Copy Share Image
A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest… — Honore de Balzac Echoes Copy Share Image
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love. — Honore de Balzac Body love Copy Share Image
At thirty years a woman asks her lover to give her back the esteem she has forfeited for his sake; she lives… — Honore de Balzac Asks Copy Share Image
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for… — Honore de Balzac Character Copy Share Image
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. — Honore de Balzac Despotism Copy Share Image
Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities. — Honore de Balzac Ability Copy Share Image
Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows. — Honore de Balzac Investment Copy Share Image
There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances. — Honore de Balzac Circumstances Copy Share Image
The weakest being on earth can accomplish feats of strength. The frailest urchin will ring every doorbell on the street in arctic… — Honore de Balzac Accomplish Copy Share Image
Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant. — Honore de Balzac Doe Copy Share Image
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. — Honore de Balzac Art Copy Share Image
Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.' — Honore de Balzac Enough Copy Share Image
A girl's coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside; a woman's coquetry… — Honore de Balzac Coquetry Copy Share Image
“The viscountess had raised the forefinger of her right hand and made a pretty gesture toward a stool at her feet. There… — Honoré de Balzac Description Copy Share Image
A woman questions the man who loves exactly as a judge questions a criminal. This being so, a flash of the eye,… — Honore de Balzac Attempting Copy Share Image
Le coeur d'une me' re est un ab|"me au fond duquel se trouve toujours un pardon. A mother'sheart isanabyss atthebottomof whichthere is… — Honore de Balzac Forgiveness Copy Share Image
Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues. — Honore de Balzac Character Copy Share Image
Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty. — Honore de Balzac Beauty Copy Share Image
