836 Quotes by Honoré de Balzac

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

When tempted to be unfaithful, the intellectual woman will try to inspire her husband with indifference, the sentimental woman with hatred, and the passionate woman with disgust.

Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

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.

Bankers are lynxes. To expect any gratitude from them is equivalent to attempting to move the wolves of the Ukraine to pity in the middle of winter.

No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.

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