Love is the poetry of the senses.
HONORE DE BALZACIt is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
-
-
Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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 -
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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 -
People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
HONORE DE BALZAC -
How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
HONORE DE BALZAC -
When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
HONORE DE BALZAC






