Honore de Balzac Quotes

Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.

Temperament is the thermometer of character.

The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.

God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.

A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

Love is the poetry of the senses.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.