“for a woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea”
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Famous Honore de Balzac Quotes
“Love is the most melodious of all harmonies.”
Source: Analytical Studies: Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life
“In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.”
“Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.”
“Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions.”
“Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves.”
“Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.”
“Love is the only passion which suffers neither past nor future.”
“No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.”
“The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.”
“To speak of love is to make love.”
Source: The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou
“True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!”
“You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth.”
Source: The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin
“The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.”
Source: The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin
Source: The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin
“A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.”
“The more one judges, the less one loves.”
Source: The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou
“Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.”
Source: Letters of Two Brides
“The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.”
“Love is the poetry of the senses.”
Source: The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou
Source: Letters of Two Brides
“One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.”
Source: The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou
“Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.”
“The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.”
“To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.”