Honore De Balzac Quotes, Feelings Quotes, Ignorant Quotes

Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Feelings Quotes , Ignorant Quotes

If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Ignorant Quotes

The union of a want and a sentiment.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Love Quotes , Poetry Quotes

It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of hope but grief looms start and stripped of all veils.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Grief Quotes

Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them from admiration, a vulgar emotion.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Men Quotes , Needs Quotes

In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Horse Quotes , Knowledge Quotes

I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Men Quotes , Yield Quotes

Our souls possess the unknown power of extending as well as contracting space.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Space Quotes , Soul Quotes

Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Money Quotes , Feelings Quotes

We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Home Quotes , Light Quotes

Reading brings us unknown friends

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Book Quotes

The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Gymnastics Quotes , Mind Quotes

Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Marriage Quotes , Fighting Quotes

When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Writing Quotes , Talent Quotes

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Destiny Quotes , Maids Quotes

Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Art Quotes , Lying Quotes

Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Love Is Quotes , Men Quotes

This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of the battlefield, and the battle takes place. Things remembered arrive at full gallop, ensuing to the wind. The light cavalry of comparisons deliver a magnificent deploying charge, the artillery of logic hurry up with their train and ammunition, the shafts of with start up like sharpshooters. Similes arise, the paper is covered with ink; for the struggle commences and is concluded with torrents of black water, just as a battle with powder.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Struggle Quotes , Moving Quotes

Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Gone Quotes , Today Quotes

When one of those skirt-bearing animals has set herself up above all by permitting herself to be deified, no power on earth can be as proud as she.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Pride Quotes , Animal Quotes