It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
HONORE DE BALZACLaw is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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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.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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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.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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