Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
HONORE DE BALZACNoble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
-
-
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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 victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
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 -
Love is the poetry of the senses.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
HONORE DE BALZAC