Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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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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The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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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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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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But woman brings disorder into society through passion.
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Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.
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There is something great and terrible about suicide.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
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I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
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Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.
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Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.
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The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us.
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Sensuality is the death of the soul.
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Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.
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To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold.
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Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they're strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power's so enermous there's a real risk it could shatter them.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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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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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 have long struggles with ourself, of which the outcome is one of our actions; they are, as it were, the inner side of human nature. This inner side is God's; the outer side belongs to men.
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A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her lover. This is all the more true when that woman is young, pretty, and so decollete as to emerge from the neck of her gown in the costume of Eve.