Best Honore de Balzac Quotations
- A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed. Concealed
- Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it. Conscience
- Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling. All
- For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth. Brings
- Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. Age
- Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite. Exactly
- Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood! Blood
- Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. Despotism
- Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue. Bristles
- Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine. Fine
- Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings. All
- The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris. Ape
- Those who spend too fast never grow rich. Fast
- To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought. Abstract
- Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin. Business
- What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended? Beings
- When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich. Attack
- Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under… Careless
- But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite. Always Cuts
- The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or… Action
- If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former… Amusement
- It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and… All
- It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as… Among
- Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part… Bend
- The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his… Acquaintance
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