Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians, and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring a circle.
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In a husband, there is only a man; in a married woman, there is a man, a father, a mother and a woman.
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When one of those skirt-bearing animals has set herself up above all by permitting herself to be deified, no power on earth can be as proud as she.
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With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.
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No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
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Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God.
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A grass blade believes that men build palaces for it to grow in. Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of marble and it brings them down. This power of feeble life which can creep in anywhere is greater than that of the mighty behind their cannons.
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Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.
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Man judges of nature in relation to itself; the angelic spirit judges of it in relation to heaven. In short, to the spirits everything speaks.
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I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.
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Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.
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A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other.
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The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the clothes, the words and the dwelling of a prince, a banker, an artist, a bourgeois, a priest and a pauper, are wholly dissimilar and change at the will of civilizations.
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No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.
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A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.
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Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.
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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion.
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A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.
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Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights.
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Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.