836 Quotes by Honoré de Balzac

Life is simply what out feelings do to us.

To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.

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 our virtues.

Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.

I am not deep, but I am very wide.

Even beauty cannot always palliate eccentricity.

In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other.