Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
HONORE DE BALZACThe duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
-
-
At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
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 -
A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
HONORE DE BALZAC