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Famous Honore de Balzac Quotes
“Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.”
“Imagination helps the realism of every detail, and only sees the beauties of the work.”
“True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.”
“Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.”
“Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.”
“Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.”
“Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.”
“Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.”
“When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.”
“All human power is a compound of time and patience.”
“When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.”
“A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.”
“Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.”
“The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.”
“We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.”
“Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.'”
“They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.”
“A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent.”