Honore de Balzac Quotes About Love

Quotes about: Love

• The more one judges, the less one loves.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Inspiring, Positivity

  Honore De Balzac (2005). “The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou”, p.90, Cosimo, Inc.

• One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Anniversary, Marriage

  Honore De Balzac (2005). “The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou”, p.9, Cosimo, Inc.

• Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, May, Immensity

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.109, The Floating Press

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

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Passion, Literature

• True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Life, Heart

• A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Men, Sea

• Love is the poetry of the senses.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Valentines Day, Valentine's Day

  Honore De Balzac (2005). “The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou”, p.56, Cosimo, Inc.

• 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

• It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Life, Marriage

• The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Hope, Passion

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.135, The Floating Press

• Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Wine, Tea

• I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Romantic, Thinking Of You

• It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Men, Play

• We love because we love.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Love Is

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “The Commission in Lunacy”, p.6, The Floating Press

• The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Chivalry, Motto

• Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Two, Sorrow

• Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Art, Simple

• To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, True Love, Men

• Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Gratitude, Love Is

• Authentic love always assumes the mystery of modesty, even in its expression, because actions speak louder than words. Unlike a feigned love, it feels no need to set a conflagration.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Expression, Actions Speak Louder Than Words

• Economized love is never real love.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Real, Heart

• Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Poetry, Expansion

• Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Men, Rivals

• The pleasures of love proceed successively from a distich to a quatrain, from a quatrain to a sonnet, from a sonnet to a ballad, from a ballad to an ode, from an ode to a cantata, and from a cantata to a dithyramb. A husband who begins with the dithyramb is a fool.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Husband, Odes

• At thirty years a woman asks her lover to give her back the esteem she has forfeited for his sake; she lives only for him, her thoughts are full of his future, he must have a great career, she bids him make it glorious; she can obey, entreat, command, humble herself, or rise in pride; times without number she brings comfort when a young girl can only make moan.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Girl, Women

  "A Woman of Thirty" by Honore de Balzac, translated by Ellen Marriag, (Ch. III), 1842.

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