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Honore de Balzac Quotes - Page 8

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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.

Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.

Honore de Balzac

Memories, Desire, Enjoyed

For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.

Honore de Balzac

Men, Feet, Sick

Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.'

Honore de Balzac

Looks, Sometimes, Moments

Honore de Balzac (1899). “A Passion in the Desert”, p.17, Library of Alexandria

As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.

Honore de Balzac

Coffee, Struggle, Moving

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

Honore de Balzac

Selfishness, Courtesy, Veneer

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

What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

Honore de Balzac

Mean, Feelings, Charm

Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.

Honore de Balzac

Women, Keyboards, Study

Honore de Balzac (2014). “Analytical Studies: Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life”, p.82, The Floating Press

Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?

Honore de Balzac

Crush, Shy, Persons

Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.

Honore de Balzac

Men, Abandoned, Refuse

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Anniversary, Marriage

Honore De Balzac (2005). “The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou”, p.9, Cosimo, Inc.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

Honore de Balzac

Passion, Men, Ideas

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Passion, Literature

In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Mistake, Men

Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness.

Honore de Balzac

Paris, Pretty Woman, Inexplicable

Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink...

Honore de Balzac

Coffee, Moving, Fall

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

Honore de Balzac

Funny, Nature, Stupid

In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.

Honore de Balzac

France, Injury, Remedy

Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.

Honore de Balzac

Men, Raised, Estimation

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

Honore de Balzac

Girl, Suffering, Pleasure

A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

Honore de Balzac

Doe, Martyr, Great Writers

Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.

Honore de Balzac

Dupes, Emotion, Victim

We love because we love.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Love Is

Honore de Balzac (2014). “The Commission in Lunacy”, p.6, The Floating Press

Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.

Honore de Balzac

Women, Men

The Physiology of Marriage

Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.

Honore de Balzac

Answers, Pleasure, Greater

Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.

Honore de Balzac

Happiness, Hypocrisy, Social

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