Top 104 Quotes by Honore de Balzac

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

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.

Love is a game in which one always cheats.