Famous Quotes

Quotes by Honore De Balzac

• The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
• 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.
• The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
• 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.
• The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
• The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
• The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all, but love only one.
• The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
• There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.
• There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
• There is something great and terrible about suicide.
• To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
• Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
• 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.