Quotes Honore de Balzac

A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity....

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or...

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf hus...

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as...

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an o...

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself seco...

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

A mother who is really a mother is never free....

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the futur...

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, ...

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor know...

A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor kn...

A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is...

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history,...

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire...

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only b...

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime....

Behind every great fortune there is a crime....

Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there i...

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies....

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the o...

Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing....

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woma...

Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God....

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it....