balzac Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about balzac.
“The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.”
- Honore de Balzac
“Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.”
- Honore de Balzac
“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
“Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.”
- Honore de Balzac
“It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.”
- Honore de Balzac
“Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.”
- Honore de Balzac
“If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.”
- Honore de Balzac
“Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.”
- Honore de Balzac
“Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.”
- Honore de Balzac
“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