Honoré de Balzac Quotes

It's easier to come across as a good lover than as a husband; because it's easier to be timely and witty from time to time than every day.

One can love without being happy; one can be happy without loving; but to love and be happy is something marvelous.

One is not a friend of a woman when one can be her lover.

What makes friendships indissoluble and doubles their charm is a feeling that love lacks, certainty.

Ingratitude may stem from the inability to repay.

Being jealous is the height of selfishness, it is self-love in deficiency, it is the irritation of false vanity.

Elegance is the science of not doing anything the same as others, while appearing to do everything in the same way as they do.

We must leave vanity to those who have nothing else to exhibit.

The brute covers himself, the rich adorns himself, the foolish disguises himself, the elegant dresses himself.

Equality may be a right, but there is no human power that can ever turn it into a fact.

Love is the poetry of the senses.

Those who do not have children miss out on many pleasures, but also avoid many pains.