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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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

Honore de Balzac

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

Honore de Balzac

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

Honore de Balzac

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

Honore de Balzac

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

Honore de Balzac

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.

Honore de Balzac

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

Honore de Balzac

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

Honore de Balzac

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

Honore de Balzac

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

Honore de Balzac

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

Honore de Balzac

A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.

Honore de Balzac

The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.

Honore de Balzac

Author Bio

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