Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will.
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Genius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius must consider itself as above the law, for it is the task of genius to remake the law; moreover the man who frees himself from his time and place may take everything, hazard everything, for everything is his by right.
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Le mariage doit incessamment combattre un monstre qui de v ore tout: l'habitude. Marriage should always combat the monster that devours everything: habit.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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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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Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.
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Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
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With monuments as with men, position means everything.
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In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.
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But woman brings disorder into society through passion.
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I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
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The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness.
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Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.
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We are scarcely apt to berate the source of enjoyment.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.
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There is something great and terrible about suicide.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire.
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Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no mercy on the faults of other people; but it has also a sublime faith in them.
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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.