Best Honore de Balzac Quotes
- Love is the poetry of the senses. Famous Love
- Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness. Courtesy
- The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to… Command
- If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. Art
- A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way. Alaska
- A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and… Drama
- A man is a poor creature compared to a woman. Compared
- Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. Art
- The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. Art
- It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every… Act
- The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. Cynical
- Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves. Amused
- I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race. Broker
- Love is a game in which one always cheats. Always Cheats
- A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over. Been
- First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time. Catching
- Modesty is the conscience of the body. Body
- Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. Bureaucracy
- We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. Alike
- Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which… Aside
- One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. Anniversary
- The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance. Countenance
- Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. Belief
- There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile. Bachelor
- It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than… Day
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