Quotes By Honore De Balzac

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.

Love is the poetry of the senses.

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.

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

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

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

Love is a game in which one always cheats.

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.

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

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

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.