90 Quotes By Honore de Balzac


Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
Honore de Balzac on alone

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
Honore de Balzac on anniversary

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
Honore de Balzac on art

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
Honore de Balzac on art

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
Honore de Balzac on art

What is art? Nature concentrated.
Honore de Balzac on art

All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Honore de Balzac on art

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist there can only be promise of the coming woman.
Honore de Balzac on beauty

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
Honore de Balzac on beauty

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
Honore de Balzac on business

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
Honore de Balzac on business

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.
Honore de Balzac on business

Death unites as well as separates it silences all paltry feeling.
Honore de Balzac on death

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Honore de Balzac on equality

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
Honore de Balzac on equality

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
Honore de Balzac on finance

Finance, like time, devours its own children.
Honore de Balzac on finance

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 on forgiveness

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Honore de Balzac on forgiveness

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Honore de Balzac on friendship