Honore de Balzac Quotes

French - Novelist | May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

Honore de Balzac

SolitudeSomeoneYouNeedTellFine

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

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A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.

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The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

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LifeBusinessManFriendsFortune

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

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Love is a game in which one always cheats.

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LoveLove IsGameAlwaysWhich

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

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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

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LoveGreatStartEndChampagne

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.

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Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

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HypocrisyMannersNation

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.

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LoveMenWomanPainSufferingLook

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.

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