black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Honore de Balzac

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Credit Crime Forgiveness Love Ourselves Virtue Woman
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Courtesy General Selfish
People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Fortune Happiness Misfortune Ourselves People
We love because we love.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Love One Liner
Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Destiny Live Maid Old Requirement Woman
Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Beautiful Capacity Forget Life Memories
A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Creation Genius Husband Marriage Woman
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Command Different Fact Kind Love Obedience Oneself Passion Quite
Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Choice Hard Life Yourself
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.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Food Hate Love Right Wrong
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 BALZAC

Dance Quite Right Woman
Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Acquire Pieces Virtue Whole Yourself
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Bond Greatness Relationship Sick Yourself
The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Fools Himself Man Philosophy Wife
The more you judge, the less you love.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Judge Love Yourself
If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Feeling Fools History Judgement Life Man Secret Sorrow

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Honore de Balzac Quotes