Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie Humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus. This Honore de Balzac quotes on love, magic skin will motivate you.
Best Honore de Balzac Quotes
- “When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “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
- “The more one judges, the less one loves.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “Someday you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.” ~ Honore de Balzac
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“Those who spend too fast never grow rich.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “There are two histories: official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.” ~ Honore de Balzac
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“True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “One hour of love has a whole life in it.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “A jealous husband doesn’t doubt his wife, but himself.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “Life cannot go on without much forgetting.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.” ~ Honore de Balzac
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“Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!” ~ Honore 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.” ~ Honore de Balzac - “Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.” ~ Honore de Balzac
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“Love is the poetry of the senses.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “He who best knows the world will love it least.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.” ~ Honore 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.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.” ~ Honore de Balzac
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“We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “As a rule, only the poor are generous.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “All human power is a compound of time and patience.” ~ Honore de Balzac
