X

Sort by

Quote length

Sentiment

Change font

Change background

Honore De Balzac Inspirational Quotes (390)

Page 8 of 17
Filter & Style
Image
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
Image
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
Honore de Balzac
Image
Death unites as well as separates it silences all paltry feeling.
Honore de Balzac
Image
How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene. 'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,' observed the tempter. 'I'd want to go there in my own carriage, have my own box, and come back in comfort. All or nothing, that's my motto.' 'And a very good one,' said Madame Vauquer.
Honore de Balzac
Image
The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.
Honore de Balzac
Image
No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion.
Honore de Balzac
Image
The weakest being on earth can accomplish feats of strength. The frailest urchin will ring every doorbell on the street in arctic weather or hoist himself aloft to inscribe his name on a virgin monument.
Honore de Balzac
Image
How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
Honore de Balzac
Image
Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
Honore de Balzac
Image
Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.
Honore de Balzac
Image
The union of a want and a sentiment.
Honore de Balzac
Image
It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.
Honore de Balzac
Image
To man, faith to woman, doubt. She bears the heavier burden. Does not woman invariably suffer for two?
Honore de Balzac
Image
Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion.
Honore de Balzac
Image
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.
Honore de Balzac
Image
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
Honore de Balzac
Image
Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire.
Honore de Balzac
Image
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.
Honore de Balzac
Image
Love is the poetry of the senses.
Honore de Balzac
Image
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for a Christian, a treasure for a man of parts, and an abyss for a weakling.
Honore de Balzac
Image
Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts.
Honore de Balzac
Image
He who best knows the world will love it least.
Honore de Balzac
Image
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
Honore de Balzac
Image
My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, Serve all, love one.
Honore de Balzac
Previous
Next