Quotes by Honore De Balzac

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

#Love

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

#Art

When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but...

#Betrayal

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business...

#Friends

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy...

#Happiness

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on...

#Happiness

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that...

#Friendship

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of...

#Intelligence

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not...

#Women

The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their...

#Women

A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the...

#Women

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

#Women