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 BALZACIf we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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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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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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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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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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