There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile. — Honore de Balzac Pregnancy Copy Share Image
Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin. — Honore de Balzac Business Copy Share Image
The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance. — Honore de Balzac 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
“Passion is univeral humanity. Without it religion history art and romance would be useless.” — Honore De Balzac Humanity Copy Share Image
Imagination helps the realism of every detail, and only sees the beauties of the work. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Young man,' Porbus said, seeing Poussin stare open-mouthed at a picture, 'Don't look at the canvas too long, it will drive you… — Honoré de Balzac Despair Copy Share Image
A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. — Honore de Balzac Anatomy Copy Share Image
At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman. — Honore de Balzac Beauty Copy Share Image
It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was… — Honore de Balzac Book Copy Share Image
The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary… — Honore de Balzac Authority Copy Share Image
He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“She was, as you know already without as yet knowing anything, the Lily of this valley, where she grew for heaven, filling… — Honoré de Balzac Lily Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“So often it happens that this one or that stands condemned by the social laws that govern family relations; and yet there… — Honoré de Balzac Family Copy Share Image
Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband. — Honore de Balzac Husband Copy Share Image
A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed! — Honore de Balzac Clever Copy Share Image
Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood! — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Our souls possess the unknown power of extending as well as contracting space. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“A ignorância é a mãe de todos os crimes, porque um crime é, antes de mais, uma falta de raciocínio.” — Honoré de Balzac Amor Copy Share Image
