Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman. — Honore de Balzac Feminism Copy Share Image
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are. — Honore de Balzac Funny Copy Share Image
Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity. — Honore de Balzac Books Copy Share Image
Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty. — Honore de Balzac Beauty Copy Share Image
Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will… — Honore de Balzac Aversion Copy Share Image
The man whom fate employs to awaken love in the heart of a young girl is often unaware of his work and… — Honore de Balzac Fate Copy Share Image
Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a… — Honore de Balzac Constancy Copy Share Image
Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity? — Honore de Balzac Crush Copy Share Image
A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste. — Honore de Balzac Boarding school Copy Share Image
“I had youth, beauty, two advantages conferred by chance, and of which we are as proud as if they were hard-won.” — Honoré de Balzac Beauty Copy Share Image
It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
In the silence of their studios, busied for days at a time with works which leave the mind relatively free, painters become… — Honore de Balzac Artist Copy Share Image
Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians, and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“However, she wouldn't be the first person to mistrust her nearest and dearest yet confide in the first stranger who comes along:… — Honoré de Balzac First person Copy Share Image
“The words came from him like a sob, a hoarse sound like the death rattle of a dying man; it seemed indeed… — Honoré de Balzac Death 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
“However, she wouldn't be the first person to mistrust her nearest and dearest yet confide in the first stranger who comes along:… — Honoré de Balzac Burning desire Copy Share Image
“Emile was a journalist who had acquired more reputation by doing nothing than others from a successful productive career. A bold, biting,… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Was she acting entirely consciously? No: women are always sincere, even in the midst of their most shocking duplicities, because it is… — Honoré de Balzac Dignity Copy Share Image
If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the… — Honore de Balzac Art Copy Share Image
This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at… — Honore de Balzac Acquaintance Copy Share Image
“I haven't any objection to your thoroughly despising me, right now, because I'm convinced you'll come to love me. You'll find I… — Honoré de Balzac 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
Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me.… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice. — Honore de Balzac Clothes Copy Share Image
Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth. — Honore de Balzac Christianity Copy Share Image
