Top 104 Quotes by Honore de Balzac

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.

Love is the poetry of the senses.

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.