To our shame a woman is never so much attached to us as when we suffer — Honore De Balzac Men and women Copy Share Image
When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa. — Honore de Balzac Character Copy Share Image
The glutton is much more than an animal and much less than a man. — Honore de Balzac Animal Copy Share Image
The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can. — Honore de Balzac 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
When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands. — Honore de Balzac Bachelors Copy Share Image
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. — Honore de Balzac Internet Copy Share Image
“Happiness is the inner poetry of women, just as fine clothes are the mask of beauty” — Honoré de Balzac Beauty Copy Share Image
In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot. — Honore de Balzac France Copy Share Image
In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for… — Honore de Balzac Cockiness Copy Share Image
The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have… — Honore de Balzac Couple Copy Share Image
As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered.… — Honore de Balzac Allies Copy Share Image
“Whoever wishes to rise above the common level must be prepared for a great struggle and recoil before no obstacle. A great… — Honoré de Balzac French literature Copy Share Image
Authentic love always assumes the mystery of modesty, even in its expression, because actions speak louder than words. Unlike a feigned love,… — Honore de Balzac Action Copy Share Image
Though your vulgarian does not readily admit that feelings can change overnight, certainly two lovers often part far more abruptly than they… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that… — Honore de Balzac Absurd Copy Share Image
A husband can commit no greater blunder than to discuss his wife, if she is virtuous, with his mistress; unless it be… — Honore de Balzac Beautiful Copy Share Image
“There are men who put the weight of a coffin into their deliberations as they bargain for Cashmere shawls for their wives,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“The more he saw, the more he doubted. He watched men narrowly, and saw how, beneath the surface, courage was often rashness;… — Honore de Balzac Beneath the surface Copy Share Image
“Látta feje fölött elrepülni a démont, akit oly könnyű angyalnak nézni, a csillogó szárnyú sátánt, aki drágaköveket hajigál, aranynyilait a paloták homlokzatára… — Honoré de Balzac Hungarian Copy Share Image
A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
In France, and at the most important period of our history, Catherine de' Medici has suffered more from popular error than any… — Honoré De Balzac Face to face Copy Share Image
“Live here, in Paris,” resumed the First Consul, addressing Bartolomeo; “we will know nothing of this affair. I will cause your property… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the… — Honore de Balzac Book Copy Share Image
Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains;… — Honoré De Balzac Copy Share Image
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance — Honore de Balzac Every moment Copy Share Image
By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate. — Honore de Balzac Resignation Copy Share Image
Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.' — Honore de Balzac Best moments Copy Share Image
The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
