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.'

The monotony of provincial life attracts the attention of people to the kitchen. You do not dine as luxuriously in the provinces as in Paris, but you dine better, because the dishes serve you are the result of mediation and study. Honoré de Balzac
Resignation is a daily suicide. Honoré de Balzac
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. Honoré de Balzac
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. Honoré de Balzac
A hobby is a happy medium between a passion and a monomania. Honoré de Balzac
A mother who is really a mother is never free. Honoré de Balzac
Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph. Honoré de Balzac
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart. Honoré de Balzac
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. Honoré de Balzac
Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune. Honoré de Balzac
Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival. Honoré de Balzac
A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness. Honoré de Balzac
A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers. Honoré de Balzac
The prodigality of millionaires is comparable only to their greed of gain. Let some whim or passion seize them and money is of no account. In fact these Croesuses find whims and passions harder to come by than gold. Honoré de Balzac
A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over. Honoré de Balzac
For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed. Honoré de Balzac
Sensuality is death of the soul. Honoré de Balzac
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. Honoré de Balzac
A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way. Honoré de Balzac
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself. Honoré de Balzac
A mother who is really a mother is never free. Honoré de Balzac
True love is eternal, infinite and always like itself. It's always equal and pure. Without violent demonstrations: It is seen with white hairs and is always young at heart. Honoré de Balzac
The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption. Honoré de Balzac
It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role. Honoré de Balzac
The more one judges, the less one loves. Honoré de Balzac
When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power. Honore de Balzac
It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants. Honoré de Balzac
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. Honoré de Balzac
All happiness depends on courage and work. Honoré de Balzac
This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army on the battlefield, and the battle takes place.. Similes arise, the paper is covered with ink; for the struggle commences and is concluded with torrents of black water, just a battle with powder. Honoré de Balzac