Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant. — Honore de Balzac Doe Copy Share Image
We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are. — Honore de Balzac Funny Copy Share Image
The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it. — Honore de Balzac Illegal Copy Share Image
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. — Honore de Balzac Bottom Copy Share Image
Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman. — Honore de Balzac Feminism Copy Share Image
We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing. — Honore de Balzac Care Copy Share Image
Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance. — Honore de Balzac Arise Copy Share Image
Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency. — Honore de Balzac Decency Copy Share Image
People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply. — Honore de Balzac Climb Copy Share Image
No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love. — Honore de Balzac Dare Copy Share Image
Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves. — Honore de Balzac Charity 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
“I shall still live on as a memory on your palette; that shall be life for me afterward.” — Honoré de Balzac Afterlife Copy Share Image
Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of… — Honore de Balzac Chance Copy Share Image
“Soon this mass of ideas became harmonized, took life, seemed, as it were, to become a living individual and moved in the… — Honoré de Balzac Life Copy Share Image
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and… — Honore de Balzac Love Copy Share Image
Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise… — Honore de Balzac Benediction Copy Share Image
Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most… — Honore de Balzac Asks Copy Share Image
If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and… — Honore de Balzac Enemies Copy Share Image
In Paris, the greatest expression of personal satisfaction known to man is the smirk on the face of a male, highly pleased… — Honore de Balzac Boudoir Copy Share Image
A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him… — Honore de Balzac Appeals Copy Share Image
There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile. — Honore de Balzac Pregnancy Copy Share Image
The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance. — Honore de Balzac Countenance Copy Share Image
Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin. — Honore de Balzac Business Copy Share Image
Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions. — Honore de Balzac Form Copy Share Image
“There's nothing so fearsome as the revolt of a sheep," said de Marsay.” — Honoré de Balzac Fear Copy Share Image
There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances. — Honore de Balzac Art Copy Share Image
The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste. — Honore de Balzac Chaste Copy Share Image
A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed! — Honore de Balzac Clever Copy Share Image
The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband. — Honore de Balzac Husband Copy Share Image
