Honore de Balzac Quotes
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.
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Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.
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The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us.
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There is nothing original; all is reflected light.
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A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.
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A lui la foi, a' elle le doute, a' elle le fardeau le plus lourd: la femme ne souffre-t-elle pas toujours pour deux? For him, faith; for her, doubt and for her theheavier load: does not the woman always suffer for both?
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Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies in the apathetic indolence with which they commit or suffer good and evil.
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Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.
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I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
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But woman brings disorder into society through passion.
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Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?]
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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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Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.
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Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical.
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There is something great and terrible about suicide.
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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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Sensuality is the death of the soul.
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Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.
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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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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.