Honore de Balzac Quotes
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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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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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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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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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Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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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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Le coeur d'une me' re est un ab|"me au fond duquel se trouve toujours un pardon. A mother'sheart isanabyss atthebottomof whichthere is always forgiveness.
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Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself.
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My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one."
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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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At thirty years a woman asks her lover to give her back the esteem she has forfeited for his sake; she lives only for him, her thoughts are full of his future, he must have a great career, she bids him make it glorious; she can obey, entreat, command, humble herself, or rise in pride; times without number she brings comfort when a young girl can only make moan.
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Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.
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Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying in stores of knowledge and energy, so that they shall not sink under the weight of responsible posts that recede from them, schemers come and go who are wealthy in words and destitute of ideas, astonish the ignorant, and creep into the confidence of those who have a little knowledge.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.
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Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.
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For the person who loves God, worship is the daily bread of patience.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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But does not happiness come from the soul within?
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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
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A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.