Honore De Balzac Quotes, Funny Quotes, Money Quotes

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Book Quotes , Law Quotes

At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Promise Quotes , Fifteen Quotes

Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Gowns Quotes , Never Quit Quotes

Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Honest Quotes , Praise Quotes

Authentic love always assumes the mystery of modesty, even in its expression, because actions speak louder than words. Unlike a feigned love, it feels no need to set a conflagration.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

On the moral plane, true friends enjoy the same protection as the sense of smell confers upon dogs. They scent the sorrow of their friends, they divine its causes, and they clasp it to their minds and hearts.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Friends Quotes , Dog Quotes

Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Suicide Quotes , Wall Quotes

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Jealousy Quotes , Stupid Quotes

An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Kings Quotes , Husband Quotes

We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer, and to whom we can say, from time to time, that solitude is a fine thing.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Solitude Quotes , Answers Quotes

Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Love Quotes

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Life Quotes , Giving 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

Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Novelty Quotes , Deceptive Quotes

For avarice begins where poverty ends.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Avarice Greed Quotes , Poverty Quotes

If certain women walk straight into adultery, there are many others who cling to numerous hopes, and commit sin only after wandering through a maze of sorrows.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Sorrow Quotes , Mazes Quotes

Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Admiration Quotes

The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Spring Quotes , Mistake Quotes