Letters of Two Brides
A source page for quotes linked to Honore de Balzac.
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“for a woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea”
“Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.”
“Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.”
“Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief.”
“The glutton is much more than an animal and much less than a man.”
“No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.”
“It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome.”
“Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.”
Source: Old Goriot: Classic French Literature
“A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion.”
“Love is the most melodious of all harmonies.”
Source: Analytical Studies: Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life
“What is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood?”
Source: Letters of Two Brides
“White hair often covers the head, but the heart that holds it is ever young.”
Source: The Lily of the Valley
“All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.”
Source: Louis Lambert
“Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.”
Source: Lost Illusions
Source: Analytical Studies: Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life
Source: A Woman of Thirty
Source: The Physiology of Marriage
“There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.”
Source: Le Pere Goriot: Easyread Comfort Edition
“Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.”
Source: Seraphita: Works of Balzac
Source: The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin
Source: Letters of Two Brides