Quotes By Honore De Balzac

Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.

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

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

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

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

Love is the poetry of the senses.

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

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.

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

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

Love is a game in which one always cheats.

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.