honore de balzac Quotes 1
| Name | Birthday | Death Date | Nationality | father | Mother | Profession | Famous For |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Honore de Balzac | 20 May 1799 | 18 August 1850 | French | Bernard-François Balssa | Anne-Charlotte-Laure Sallambier | Novelist, Playwright | A novelist, he was one of the most productive and creative writers of the nineteenth century from France. His deep observation of human life and behavior reflected in his complex characters and situations which came together from diverse backgrounds in a single story. |
A list of popular honore de balzac quotes are given below.
"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
"But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite." - Honore de Balzac
"The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute." - Honore de Balzac
"No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman." - 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 motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one." - Honore de Balzac
"A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning." - Honore de 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
"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
"First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time." - Honore de Balzac
"Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves." - Honore de Balzac
"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
"Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless." - Honore de Balzac
"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." - Honore de Balzac
"It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment." - Honore de Balzac
"At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman." - Honore de Balzac
"All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual." - Honore de Balzac