Honore de Balzac Quotes
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The future of a nation lies in the hands of mothers.
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.
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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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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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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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Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.
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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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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.
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Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.
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Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers.
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The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes.
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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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In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.
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Society is no more indulgent than was the God of Genesis.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse on who thought of them.
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Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity.
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Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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L'amour n'est pas seulement un sentiment, il est un art aussi. Love is not only a feeling; it is also an art.