All Honore De Balzac Quotes
Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.
Honore De Balzac
50% of people like this quote
For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.
Honore De Balzac
49% of people like this quote
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
Honore De Balzac
49% of people like this quote
Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.
Honore De Balzac
48% of people like this quote
It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.
Honore De Balzac
48% of people like this quote
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Honore De Balzac
48% of people like this quote
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
Honore De Balzac
48% of people like this quote
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
48% of people like this quote
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
47% of people like this quote
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
Honore De Balzac
47% of people like this quote
Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
Honore De Balzac
47% of people like this quote
There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.
Honore De Balzac
47% of people like this quote
Related authors