Author: Honore de Balzac

Quotes

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.

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.

- Honore de Balzac

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

- Honore de Balzac

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

- Honore de Balzac

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

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

- Honore de Balzac

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

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

- Honore de Balzac

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

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

- Honore de Balzac

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

- Honore de Balzac

A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.

A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.

- Honore de Balzac

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

- Honore de Balzac

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