Quotes by Honore De Balzac

Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the...

#Conviction

There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the...

#Events

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

#Finance

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint...

#First Love, #Love

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

#Fulfilment

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

#History

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

#Hypocrisy, #Manners

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the...

#Husbands

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that...

#Husbands, #Marriage

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that...

#Husbands, #Lovers

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

#Humility, #Modesty

It is not enough to be an upright man, we must be seen to be...

#Ideas, #Society