Honore de Balzac Quotes
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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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A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.
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When women love, they forgive everything...
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one 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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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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The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true.
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I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.
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Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.
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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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Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not dream of inviting to their homes.
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Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her.
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Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the freshnessof a lake. There is no character in women's faces before the age of thirty.
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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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Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights.
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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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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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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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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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No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion.