Honore de Balzac Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

  Honore de Balzac

  Art, Eye, Hands

• No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion.

  Honore de Balzac

  Eye, Frozen, Made

• Ah! the soft starlight of virgin eyes.

  Honore de Balzac

  Eye, Starlight, Virgins

• The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the clothes, the words and the dwelling of a prince, a banker, an artist, a bourgeois, a priest and a pauper, are wholly dissimilar and change at the will of civilizations.

  Honore de Balzac

  Eye, Artist, Animal

• Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

  Honore de Balzac

  Eye, Tongue, Mockery

• A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who is in love no longer belongs to himself, and may not take his own life. Love makes us almost sacred in our own eyes; it is the life of another that we revere within us; then and so begins for us the cruelest trouble of all.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Eye, Men

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.134, The Floating Press

• To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live.... To stroll is to enjoy, it is to assume a mind-set, it is to admire the sublime pictures of unhappiness, of love, of joy, of graceful or grotesque portraits; it is to plunge one's vision to the depths of a thousand existences: young, it is to desire everything; old, it is to live the life of the young, to marry their passions.

  Honore de Balzac

  Live Life, Passion, Eye

• A woman questions the man who loves exactly as a judge questions a criminal. This being so, a flash of the eye, a mere word, an inflection of the voice or a moment's hesitation suffice to expose the fact, betrayal or crime he is attempting to conceal.

  Honore de Balzac

  Betrayal, Eye, Men

• A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage.

  Honore de Balzac

  Atheist, Eye, Chance

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