Honore de Balzac Quotes

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

Love, Woman, She

A mother who is really a mother is never free.
Honore de Balzac

Parenting, Mother, Free

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The more one judges, the less one loves.
Honore de Balzac

Less, Loves, Judges

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
Honore de Balzac

Marriage, Good, Morning

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

Mother's Day, Happiness, Future

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
Honore de Balzac

Marriage, Woman, Until

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
Honore de Balzac

Difficult, Easy, Getting

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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
Honore de Balzac

Great, Power, Talent

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

Forgiveness, Love, Women

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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
Honore de Balzac

Love, May, Reveal

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
Honore de Balzac

Great, Lies, Behind

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Honore de Balzac

Equality, Power, May

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
Honore de Balzac

Love, Heart, True

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.
Honore de Balzac

Love, Passion, Two

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Honore de Balzac

Mother, Heart, Deep

Love is the poetry of the senses.
Honore de Balzac

Love, Poetry, Senses

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

Love, Stupid, Woman

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

Legal, Through, Big

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

Love, Wisdom, Motto

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
Honore de Balzac

Husband, Himself, Mistress

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

Love, Music, Time

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
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

Love, Heart, Nothing

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

Life, Mother, Long

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
Honore de Balzac

General, Courtesy, Thin

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Biography

Nationality: French

Born: May 20, 1799

Died: August 18, 1850

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