836 Quotes by Honoré de Balzac

Like evil, sublimity is also contagious.

The more you judge, the less you love.

Now literary success can only be won in solitude by persevering labor.

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.

Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no mercy on the faults of other people; but it has also a sublime faith in them.

Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.