Quotes By Honore De Balzac

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

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

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.