Honore De Balzac Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Honore De Balzac quotes, Honore De Balzac sayings, and Honore De Balzac proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves man from catching the complaint the second time. Honoré de Balzac
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves man from catching the complaint the second time. Honoré de Balzac
Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine. Honoré de Balzac
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power. Honoré de Balzac
Modesty is the conscience of the body. Honoré de Balzac
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. Honoré de Balzac
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. Honoré de Balzac
The questioning spirit is the rebellious spirit. A rebellion is always either a cloak to hide a prince, or the swaddling wrapper of a new rule. Honoré de Balzac
Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it. Honoré de Balzac
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action. Honoré de Balzac
Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her. Honoré de Balzac
Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things. Honoré de Balzac
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness. Honoré de Balzac
Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance. Honoré de Balzac
Cruelty and fear shake hands together. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. Honoré de Balzac
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness. Honoré de Balzac
It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action. Honoré de Balzac
The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth. Honoré de Balzac
Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency. Honoré de Balzac
Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden glow, even as the glory of a noble love shines like a sort of light from a woman's face. Honoré de Balzac
The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred. Honoré de Balzac
The glutton is much more than an animal and much less than a man. Honoré de Balzac
It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing. Honoré de Balzac
The questioning spirit is the rebellious spirit. A rebellion is always either a cloak to hide a prince, or the swaddling wrapper of a new rule. Honoré de Balzac
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. Honoré de Balzac
Religious ecstasy is a madness of thought freed of its bodily bonds, whereas in the ecstasy of love, the forces of twin natures unite, blend and embrace one another. Honoré de Balzac
Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul. Honoré de Balzac
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. Honoré de Balzac
A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin, - occupation. Honoré de Balzac
We do not attach ourselves permanently to any possessions, excepting in proportion to the trouble, toil and longing which they have cost us. Honoré de Balzac