Famous Quotes / Honore De Balzac
56 Quotations by Honore De Balzac
- 21. I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.
- 22. I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
- 23. If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take ...
- 24. If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
- 25. Imagination helps bring out the realism of every detail and only sees the beauties of the work.
- 26. In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
- 27. It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witt ...
- 28. Love is to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.
- 29. Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
- 30. Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
- 31. Modesty is the conscience of the body.
- 32. Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
- 33. Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
- 34. No man should marry before he has studied anatomy and dissected the body of a woman.
- 35. Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love ...
- 36. Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yours ...
- 37. Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yours ...
- 38. Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the o ...
- 39. Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
- 40. Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.