Quotes by : Honore de Balzac

Hope is a light diet but very stimulating.

True love is eternal infinite and always like itself. It is equal and pure without violent demonstrations:....

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.....

Envy is the most stupid of vices for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

Love is the poetry of the senses.

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct,....

If we could but paint with the hand as we see with the eye!

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we....

Modesty is the conscience of the body.