At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise. — Honore de Balzac Beauty Copy Share Image
Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds. — Honore de Balzac Catapult Copy Share Image
Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for… — Honore de Balzac Character Copy Share Image
Only when one has learned to acknowledge that wiser minds have made better words to come out of our mouths may we… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool. — Honore de Balzac Dressing room Copy Share Image
Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents. — Honore de Balzac Child Copy Share Image
If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way… — Honore de Balzac Affection Copy Share Image
Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones. — Honore de Balzac English Copy Share Image
Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in… — Honore de Balzac Action Copy Share Image
With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“If you have any mind to keep my respect, I recommend you not to add imbecility to these qualities by imagining that… — Honoré de Balzac Imbecility Copy Share Image
The prodigality of millionaires is comparable only to their greed of gain. Let some whim or passion seize them and money is… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Madame de Nucingen was already there, dressed with the deliberate aim of appealing to all eyes, knowing that thereby she would seem… — Honoré de Balzac Attractiveness Copy Share Image
“Only just now she said to me, ‘I am very happy, papa!’ When they say ‘father’ stiffly, it sends a chill through… — Honoré de Balzac Father Copy Share Image
To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect. — Honore de Balzac Comedy Copy Share Image
It's not enough to be a good person. You also have to show it. — Honore de Balzac Being a good person Copy Share Image
“You haven't yet given me the right to obey you when you say: 'I want to.” — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a great talent without great willpower.” — Honoré de Balzac Discipline Copy Share Image
No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion. — Honore de Balzac Catholic Copy Share Image
A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her. — Honore de Balzac Husband Copy Share Image
Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves! — Honore de Balzac Girl Copy Share Image
How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return? — Honore de Balzac Envy Copy Share Image
