The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity. — Honore de Balzac Firsts Copy Share Image
The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste. — Honore de Balzac Chaste Copy Share Image
Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street… — Honore de Balzac Cost Copy Share Image
Does not any limit imposed upon one inspire a desire to go beyond it? Does not our keenest suffering arise when our… — Honore de Balzac Arise Copy Share Image
Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights. — Honore de Balzac Certain Copy Share Image
To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless. — Honore de Balzac Granada Copy Share Image
Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival. — Honore de Balzac Depraved Copy Share Image
Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds. — Honore de Balzac Catapults Copy Share Image
Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune. — Honore de Balzac Character Copy Share Image
L'amour n'est pas seulement un sentiment, il est un art aussi. Love is not only a feeling; it is also an art. — Honore de Balzac Amour Copy Share Image
How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return? — Honore de Balzac Envy Copy Share Image
The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in… — Honore de Balzac Alchemy Copy Share Image
It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss… — Honore de Balzac Affair Copy Share Image
“for a woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea” — Honore De Balzac Life Copy Share Image
I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity. — Honore de Balzac Action Copy Share Image
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact. — Honore de Balzac Criminal mind Copy Share Image
Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest… — Honore de Balzac Asks Copy Share Image
“Ha a nők elmésnek, tehetségesnek találják, a férfiak el fogják hinni, hogy az, hacsak maga ki nem ábrándítja őket. Akkor aztán mindent… — Honoré de Balzac Balzac Copy Share Image
How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy… — Honore de Balzac Children Copy Share Image
Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness. — Honore de Balzac Beauty Copy Share Image
A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed! — Honore de Balzac Clever 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
“What do we know of the world, of business, or men, or life? Our fathers should think for us!” — Honoré de Balzac Business Copy Share Image
For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds. — Honore de Balzac Exaggeration Copy Share Image
