Honore De Balzac Quotes

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

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

"Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine."
-Honore De Balzac in Solitude quotes.

"Behind every great fortune there is a crime."
-Honore De Balzac

"There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power."
-Honore De Balzac in Talent quotes.

"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."
-Honore De Balzac in Love quotes.

"This coffee plunges into the stomach...the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop...the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp-shooters."
-Honore De Balzac

"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught."
-Honore De Balzac

"The more one judges, the less one loves."
-Honore De Balzac in Love quotes.

"I am a galley slave to pen and ink."
-Honore De Balzac in Writing quotes.

"Economized love is never real love."
-Honore De Balzac in Love quotes.

"Imagination helps bring out the realism of every detail and only sees the beauties of the work."
-Honore De Balzac

"No man should marry before he has studied anatomy and dissected the body of a woman."
-Honore De Balzac

"The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman."
-Honore De Balzac

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

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

"A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way."
-Honore De Balzac

"There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire."
-Honore De Balzac

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

"The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one."
-Honore De Balzac