Honore de Balzac Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Passion, Literature

• The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.

  Honore de Balzac

  Lying, Judging, Literature

  "'Le Père Goriot' ('Father Goriot')". Book by Honoré de Balzac. Part II, 1835.

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

  Honore de Balzac

  Art, Motherhood, Self

  "Letters of Two Brides". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1841-1842.

• A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

  Honore de Balzac

  Running, Husband, Thinking

• A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Literature, Poor

  "A Daughter of Eve". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1839.

• 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

  Love, Sisterhood, Giving

• We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

  Honore de Balzac

  Exaggeration Is, Literature, Bad Grades

• Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

  Honore de Balzac

  Pain, Men, Suffering

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac”, p.15, 谷月社

• In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

  Honore de Balzac

  Jewels, Literature, Pearls

• What is art? Nature concentrated.

  Honore de Balzac

  Art, Nature, Literature

• A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.

  Honore de Balzac

  Wedding, Flower, Wife

  "Honorine". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1845.

• Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

  Honore de Balzac

  Joy, Sorrow, Excess

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.259, The Floating Press

• Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

  Honore de Balzac

  Equality, Power, Literature

  "La Duchesse de Langeais". Essay by Honore de Balzac (1834), published in "Oeuvres completes de H. de Balzac" ("Complete works of Balzac") published by A. Houssiaux (Part II, pp. 111-235), translated by Ellen Marriage, 1855.

• The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.

  Honore de Balzac

  Literature, Virtuous Woman, Virtuous

  "The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou".

• Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.

  Honore de Balzac

  Flower, Heart, Intuition

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac”, p.88, 谷月社

• I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

  Honore de Balzac

  Race, Literature, Finance

• Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

  Honore de Balzac

  Marriage, Wedding, Monsters

• When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

  Honore de Balzac

  Law, Vices, Literature

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.56, The Floating Press

• Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Despair, Literature

• First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

  Honore de Balzac

  Funny Love, First Love, Love Is

• Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

  Honore de Balzac

  Literature, Spirit, Heavenly

• 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

  Artist, Literature, Grocers

• Finance, like time, devours its own children.

  Honore de Balzac

  Time, Money, Children

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “The Firm of Nucingen”, p.19, The Floating Press

• Love is a game in which one always cheats.

  Honore de Balzac

  Cute Love, Cheating, Love Is

• Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.

  Honore de Balzac

  Hate, Two, Hatred

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