836 Quotes by Honoré de Balzac

The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes.

We are scarcely apt to berate the source of enjoyment.

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

Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion.

How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!

Love is the most melodious of all harmonies.

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

Only when one has learned to acknowledge that wiser minds have made better words to come out of our mouths may we truly, then, begin to speak them.

In Paris, the greatest expression of personal satisfaction known to man is the smirk on the face of a male, highly pleased with himself as he leaves the boudoir of a lady.