Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Society is no more indulgent than was the God of Genesis.
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Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.
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Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the male bird.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
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Grief ennobles the commonest people because it has its own essential grandeur. To shine with the luster of grief, a person need only be sincere.
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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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When women love, they forgive everything...
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.
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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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Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to remind their victims of the blood drawn.
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Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.
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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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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 questions the man who loves exactly as a judge questions a criminal. This being so, a flash of the eye, a mere word, an inflection of the voice or a moment's hesitation suffice to expose the fact, betrayal or crime he is attempting to conceal.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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One admirable trait in women is their lack of illusions about themselves. They never reason about their most blameworthy actions; their feelings carry them away. Even their dissimulation comes naturally to them, and in them crime is free of all baseness. Most of the time they simply do not know how it happened.
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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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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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Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.