Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
HONORE DE BALZACNo man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
-
-
One hour of love has a whole life in it.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Temperament is the thermometer of character.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
HONORE DE BALZAC -
There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
HONORE DE BALZAC