836 Quotes by Honoré de Balzac

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds.

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

France is a country that loves to change their government if it is always the same.

Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects.

To man, faith; to woman, doubt. She bears the heavier burden. Does not woman invariably suffer for two?

A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.

The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.

Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.

But woman brings disorder into society through passion.