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Honore de Balzac Quotes about Love

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The more one judges, the less one loves.

The more one judges, the less one loves.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Inspiring, Positivity

Honore De Balzac (2005). “The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou”, p.90, Cosimo, Inc.

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

Love, Sisterhood, Giving

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

Honore de Balzac

Love, Men, Sea

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Life, Marriage

To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.

Honore de Balzac

Love, True Love, Men

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Wine, Tea

People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.

Honore de Balzac

Love, People, Suspicion

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Men, Play

No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Yield, Natural

Love is the poetry of the senses.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Valentines Day, Valentine's Day

Honore De Balzac (2005). “The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou”, p.56, Cosimo, Inc.

Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Gratitude, Love Is

I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Romantic, Thinking Of You

True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!

Honore de Balzac

Love, Money, Difficult

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

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

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

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Hope, Passion

Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.135, The Floating Press

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Chivalry, Motto

In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Growing, Firsts

Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Heart, Light

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.

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

We love because we love.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Love Is

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

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