Quotes by Honore de Balzac

About Honore de Balzac:

Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled La Comédie Humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 Fall of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Finance, like time, devours its own children.

Honore de Balzac

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Honore de Balzac

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

Honore de Balzac

Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.

Honore de Balzac

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

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A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

Honore de Balzac

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

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If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.

Honore de Balzac

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.

Honore de Balzac

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

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Love quotes by Honore de Balzac, UberQuotes

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

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

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

Honore de Balzac

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

Honore de Balzac

Love is a game in which one always cheats.

Honore de Balzac

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

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

It 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.

Honore de Balzac

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

Honore de Balzac

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.

Honore de Balzac

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.

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Author Bio

  • NameHonore de Balzac
  • DescriptionFrench writer
  • AliasesBalzac
  • BornMay 20, 1799
  • DiedAugust 19, 1850
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionPlaywright; Journalist; Literary Critic; Novelist; Printer