836 Quotes by Honoré de Balzac

Cruelty and fear shake hands together.

What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible.

Love knows nothing of modesty.

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

Love which economizes is never true love.

Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes to mark its passage by a trail of devastation.

The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money.

Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.

The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.