Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to… — Honore de Balzac Blood Copy Share Image
You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth. — Honore de Balzac Heart Copy Share Image
“Man cannot spend all his time doing evil, and even in the company of pirates there must be some sweet moments on… — Honoré de Balzac Business Copy Share Image
Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their… — Honore de Balzac Conscience Copy Share Image
“¿No hay que haberlo experimentado todo para poder expresarlo todo? Y sentir vivamente, ¿no es sufrir? Por consiguiente, las poesías no se… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a… — Honore de Balzac Every moment Copy Share Image
“Unluckily, Governments cannot be enlightened, and a Government which regards itself as a diffuser of light is the least open to enlightenment.” — Honoré de Balzac Buddhism Copy Share Image
Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature. — Honore de Balzac Contrary Copy Share Image
The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the… — Honore de Balzac Age Copy Share Image
Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable. — Honore de Balzac Bearable Copy Share Image
Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned. — Honore de Balzac Helping Copy Share Image
In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge. — Honore de Balzac Carriages Copy Share Image
Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like… — Honore de Balzac Arise Copy Share Image
Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady… — Honore de Balzac Body Copy Share Image
Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire. — Honore de Balzac Desire Copy Share Image
Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence. — Honore de Balzac Action Copy Share Image
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. — Honore de Balzac Earth Copy Share Image
“who had not felt his daughter’s heart beat against his breast for ten years, “do you want me to die of joy?” — Honoré de Balzac Children Copy Share Image
“...a clerk, a machine, a riding-school hack, eating and drinking and sleeping at fixed hours. I should be like everyone else. And… — Honoré de Balzac Computers Copy Share Image
The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us. — Honore de Balzac Funny Copy Share Image
“Was she acting entirely consciously? No: women are always sincere, even in the midst of their most shocking duplicities, because it is… — Honoré de Balzac Dignity Copy Share Image
Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling. — Honore de Balzac Emotion Copy Share Image
Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man. — Honore de Balzac Accounts Copy Share Image
