Honore De Balzac quotes was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled La Comédie humaine Born: 05/20/1799 Died: 08/18/1850 Country: france

• I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race. (Honore De Balzac)
• All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. (Honore De Balzac)
• Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. (Honore De Balzac)
• We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. (Honore De Balzac)
• Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies. (Honore De Balzac)
• The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. (Honore De Balzac)
• Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society. (Honore De Balzac)
• Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. (Honore De Balzac)
• Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. (Honore De Balzac)
• Behind every great fortune there is a crime. (Honore De Balzac)
• Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. (Honore De Balzac)
• You may imitate, but never counterfeit. (Honore De Balzac)
• Modesty is the conscience of the body. (Honore De Balzac)
• Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. (Honore De Balzac)
• To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. (Honore De Balzac)
• To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect. (Honore De Balzac)
• A woman must be a genius to create a good husband. (Honore De Balzac)
• 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. (Honore De Balzac)
• Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation. (Honore De Balzac)
• The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one. (Honore De Balzac)
• A mother who is really a mother is never free. (Honore De Balzac)
• Finance, like time, devours its own children. (Honore De Balzac)
• If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. (Honore De Balzac)
• In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. (Honore De Balzac)
• Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself. (Honore De Balzac)
• If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life. (Honore De Balzac)
• Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence. (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 out virtues. (Honore De Balzac)
• A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity. (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)
• A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists. (Honore De Balzac)

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