Honore de Balzac Quotes
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No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.
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No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.
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Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts.
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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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Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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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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When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army.
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Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode the soul like that frightful acid which penetrates crystal.
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Clouds signify the veil of the Most High.
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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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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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Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.
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Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.
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Is there any instinct more deeply implanted in the heart of man than the pride of protection, a protection which is constantly exerted for a fragile and defenceless creature?
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True love rules especially through memory.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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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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Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.
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Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.