Honore de Balzac Quotes
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An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.
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For businessmen, the world is a bale of banknotes in circulation; for most young men, it is a woman; for some women, it is a man; and for others it may be a salon, a coterie, a part of town or a whole city.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity.
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Un mari, comme un gouvernement, ne doit jamais avouer de faute. A husband, like a government, never needs to admit a fault.
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Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers.
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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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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.
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The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings.
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Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.
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Beaucoup d'hommes ont un orgueil qui les pousse a' cacher leurs combats et a' ne se montrer que victorieux. Many men have pride that causes them to hide their combats and to only show themselves victorious.
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Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will.
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Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.
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To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival.
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Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.