Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane. — Honore de Balzac Champagne Copy Share Image
When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen. — Honore de Balzac Particular Copy Share Image
A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne. — Honore de Balzac Know how Copy Share Image
Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature. — Honore de Balzac Art Copy Share Image
“Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can turn it into a fact.” — Honoré de Balzac Equality 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
“Existe esa clase de goces que solamente pueden saborearse entre dos, de poeta a poeta, de corazón a corazón.” — Honoré de Balzac Amor Copy Share Image
Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice. — Honore de Balzac Audacity 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
The questioning spirit is the rebellious spirit. A rebellion is always either a cloak to hide a prince, or the swaddling wrapper… — Honore de Balzac Cloaks Copy Share Image
Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person… — Honore de Balzac Bird Copy Share Image
Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true. — Honore de Balzac Doe 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
Un homme n'a jamais pu e lever sa ma|"tresse jusqu'a' lui; mais une femme place toujours son amant aussi haut qu'elle. A… — Honore de Balzac Femme Copy Share Image
Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains;… — Honore de Balzac Accounts 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 Eternal Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility,… — Honore de Balzac Anti bullying Copy Share Image
The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal… — Honore de Balzac Action 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
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
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
A sick man, surrounded by those who love him, nursed by those who wish earnestly that he should live, will recover (all… — Honore de Balzac Ardent Copy Share Image
“This tragic short story was written in 1829 and published in 1830 in La Mode, followed by another edition in the Gosselin… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Here comes Mamma Vauquerr, fair as a starrr; and strung up like a bunch of carrots. Aren't we suffocating ourselves a wee… — Honoré de Balzac Comedie Copy Share Image
Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying… — Honore de Balzac Ambition Copy Share Image
To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live…… — Honore de Balzac Admire Copy Share Image
Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages.… — Honore de Balzac Agitated Copy Share Image
“A valley full of genuine suffering, and of joys that often turn out to be false, and so incredibly tumultuous that it… — Honoré de Balzac Grief Copy Share Image
What is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? — Honore de Balzac Inspirational Copy Share Image
The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan. — Honore de Balzac Defeat Copy Share Image
Now literary success can only be won in solitude by persevering labor. — Honore de Balzac Labor Copy Share Image
In smart society men are jealous of one another after the fashion of women. — Honore de Balzac Fashion Copy Share Image
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. — Honore de Balzac Art Copy Share Image
