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Honore de Balzac Quotes about Love - Page 2

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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.

The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Tyranny

Vulgar souls look hastily and superficially at the sea and accuse it of monotony; other more privileged beings could spend a lifetime admiring it and discovering new and changing phenomena that delight them. So it is with love.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Sea, Soul

Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Men, Rivals

A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Coquetry, Virtuous

At thirty years a woman asks her lover to give her back the esteem she has forfeited for his sake; she lives only for him, her thoughts are full of his future, he must have a great career, she bids him make it glorious; she can obey, entreat, command, humble herself, or rise in pride; times without number she brings comfort when a young girl can only make moan.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Girl, Women

"A Woman of Thirty" by Honore de Balzac, translated by Ellen Marriag, (Ch. III), 1842.

Love is the only passion which suffers neither past nor future.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Passion, Past

Authentic love always assumes the mystery of modesty, even in its expression, because actions speak louder than words. Unlike a feigned love, it feels no need to set a conflagration.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Expression, Actions Speak Louder Than Words

To speak of love is to make love.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Love Is, Making Love

Honore De Balzac (2005). “The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou”, p.186, Cosimo, Inc.

You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Heart, Teeth

Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Earth, Sun

Economized love is never real love.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Real, Heart

Love is the most melodious of all harmonies.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Love Is, Harmony

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

The man whom fate employs to awaken love in the heart of a young girl is often unaware of his work and therefore leaves it uncompleted.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Girl, Heart

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.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Marriage, Blessing

A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who is in love no longer belongs to himself, and may not take his own life. Love makes us almost sacred in our own eyes; it is the life of another that we revere within us; then and so begins for us the cruelest trouble of all.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Eye, Men

Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.134, The Floating Press

Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God

Honore de Balzac

Love, Poetry, Expansion

A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Credit, Favors

Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Spring, Ocean

Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.121, The Floating Press

Love knows nothing of modesty.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Modesty, Knows

I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Witty, Power

Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.92, The Floating Press

The union of a want and a sentiment.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Poetry, Unions

Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Self Love

The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Selfish, Passion

"Letters of Two Brides". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1841-1842.

Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Passion, Vanity

Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Work, Men

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