Honore De Balzac Quotes

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
- Honore De Balzac

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
- Honore De Balzac

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
- Honore De Balzac

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
- Honore De Balzac

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
- Honore De Balzac

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.
- Honore De Balzac

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.
- Honore De Balzac

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
- Honore De Balzac

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
- Honore De Balzac

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
- Honore De Balzac

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
- Honore De Balzac

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
- Honore De Balzac

Playing with fire is bad for those who burn themselves. For the rest of us, it is a very great pleasure.
- Honore De Balzac

What is art? Nature concentrated.
- Honore De Balzac

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
- Honore De Balzac

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
- Honore De Balzac

Love is the poetry of the senses.
- Honore De Balzac

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
- Honore De Balzac

The more one judges, the less one loves.
- Honore De Balzac

Love is a game in which one always cheats.
- Honore De Balzac

A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea.
- Honore De Balzac

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
- Honore De Balzac

Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief.
- Honore De Balzac

The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true.
- Honore De Balzac

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
- Honore De Balzac