Honore De Balzac Quotes, Eye Quotes, Frozen Quotes

No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Eye Quotes , Frozen Quotes

Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Role Models Quotes , Envy Quotes

There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Art Quotes , Philosophy Quotes

Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes

Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Girl Quotes , Suffering Quotes

Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Doe Quotes , Delicacy Quotes

Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Hate Quotes , Hatred Quotes

Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Women Quotes , Dresses Quotes

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Friendship Quotes , Best Friend Quotes

Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most audacious of enterprises; the battle is not slow to start, and victory, that is to say freedom, goes to the cleverest.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Love Quotes , Marriage Quotes

Beaucoup d'hommes ont un orgueil qui les pousse a' cacher leurs combats et a' ne se montrer que victorieux. Many men have pride that causes them to hide their combats and to only show themselves victorious.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Pride Quotes , Men Quotes

With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to an honest man he has been unable to swindle.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Grateful Quotes , Men Quotes

With monuments as with men, position means everything.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Mean Quotes , Men Quotes

[Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it is in ourselves, an interpreter for the communication of ideas and sensations, an exhaustless source of poetic inspiration. Every figure is a world in itself, a portrait of which the original appeared in a sublime vision, in a flood of light, pointed to by an inward voice, laid bare by a divine finger which showed what the sources of expression had been in the whole past life of the subject.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Inspiration Quotes , Communication Quotes

The key to all sciences is unquestionably the question mark. To the word How? we owe most of our greatest discoveries. Wisdom in life may perhaps consist in asking ourselves on all occasions: Why?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Keys Quotes , Discovery Quotes

Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post facto; the latter feel and judge at one and the same time.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Men Quotes , Yield Quotes

Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Gone Quotes , Today Quotes

The fashions we call English in Paris are French in London, and vice versa. Franco-British hostility vanishes when it comes to questions of words and clothing. God save the King is a tune composed by Lully for a chorus in a play by Racine.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Fashion Quotes , Kings Quotes

Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Men Quotes

Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Fire Quotes , Flames Quotes