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Honore de Balzac Quotes - Page 6

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Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

Honore de Balzac

Men, Yield, Sound

Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.

Honore de Balzac

Memories, Character, Writing

The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

Honore de Balzac

Husband, Men, Lovers

Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.58, The Floating Press

A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage.

Honore de Balzac

Teacher, Looks, Lessons

Necessity is often the spur to genius.

Honore de Balzac

Inspirational, Spurs, Genius

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

Honore de Balzac

Fortune

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

Honore de Balzac

Running, Husband, Thinking

As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.

Honore de Balzac

People, Generosity, Twenties

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

Honore de Balzac

Marriage, Wedding, Monsters

An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.

Honore de Balzac

Pounds, Timidity

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

Love, Life, Heart

No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.

Honore de Balzac

Forgiveness, Pedestal, Lovers

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

Honore de Balzac

Inspirational, Inspiring, Confidence

Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.

Honore de Balzac

Grief, Heart, Giving

If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.

Honore de Balzac

Suicide, Wall, Writing

Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Art, Simple

Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Two, Sorrow

It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.

Honore de Balzac

Believe, Men, Facts

White hair often covers the head, but the heart that holds it is ever young.

Honore de Balzac

Heart, Hair, White

Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Lily of the Valley”, p.152, The Floating Press

Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.

Honore de Balzac

Men, Reign, Mischief

No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.

Honore de Balzac

Sea, Lines, Latitude And Longitude

The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can.

Honore de Balzac

Safe, Boxes, Deposits

The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred

Honore de Balzac

Inspirational, Facts, Impossible

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

Honore de Balzac

Love, May, Immensity

Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.109, The Floating Press

Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.

Honore de Balzac

Love Is, Men, Delight

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