Best Honore de Balzac Thoughts
- Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole. Bottom
- Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims. Choice
- Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode the soul like… Acid
- Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind. Belong
- Novelty is both delightful and deceptive. Both
- In a husband there is only a man; in a married woman there is a man, a father, and mother, and a woman. Father
- When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen. Anything One
- All human power is a compound of time and patience. All
- A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself. Doesnt
- The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true Almost Always
- Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire. Fire
- A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other. Each
- He's got his dog trained so that it only does it on newspapers. The trouble is it does it when he's reading the blasted things. Blasted
- When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary. Dog
- Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands. Bachelors
- The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical. Act
- Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man. Account
- The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool. Dressing
- [Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it… Appeared
- Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred. Affection
- A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded… All
- There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances. Bad
- I believe in the incomprehensibility of God. Believe
- We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are. Funny
- All we are is in the soul. All
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