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Honore De Balzac Quotes

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
What is art? Nature concentrated.
All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist there can only be promise of the coming woman.
Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.
Death unites as well as separates it silences all paltry feeling.
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
Finance, like time, devours its own children.
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
There is something great and terrible about suicide.
A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
Love is the poetry of the senses.
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all, but love only one.
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.