Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness. — Honore de Balzac Dupes Copy Share Image
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own. — Honore de Balzac Happiness Copy Share Image
Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect. — Honore de Balzac Disrespect Copy Share Image
From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her… — Honore de Balzac Draws Copy Share Image
Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word. — Honore de Balzac Break Copy Share Image
Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture. — Honore de Balzac Atheism Copy Share Image
Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad. — Honore de Balzac Believe Copy Share Image
For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life. — Honore de Balzac Beacons Copy Share Image
The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to… — Honore de Balzac Adversity Copy Share Image
Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law.… — Honore de Balzac Attorney Copy Share Image
A grass blade believes that men build palaces for it to grow in. Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of… — Honore de Balzac Behinds Copy Share Image
In all lands, sailors form a race apart. They profess a congenital contempt for landlubbers. As for the tradesman, he understands nothing… — Honore de Balzac Care Copy Share Image
How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene. 'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,' observed the tempter. 'I'd want to… — Honore de Balzac Boxes Copy Share Image
Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such… — Honore de Balzac Character Copy Share Image
The monotony of provincial life attracts the attention of people to the kitchen. You do not dine as luxuriously in the provinces… — Honore de Balzac Attention Copy Share Image
Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about… — Honore de Balzac Children 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
Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine. — Honore De Balzac Fine Copy Share Image
Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it. — Honore de Balzac Equality Copy Share Image
No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover. — Honore de Balzac Husband Copy Share Image
The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes. — Honore de Balzac Deceiving Copy Share Image
Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit. — Honore de Balzac Devouring Copy Share Image
An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity. — Honore de Balzac Courage Copy Share Image
Love is the only passion which suffers neither past nor future. — Honore de Balzac Love Copy Share Image
A woman who has made fun of her husband can love him no more — Honore De Balzac Husband Copy Share Image
Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret. — Honore de Balzac Couple Copy Share Image
Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities. — Honore de Balzac Abilities Copy Share Image
