Famous Honor de Balzac Quotes

  • So, my dear fellow, if I don’t believe in God, I believe still less in man. – Honor de Balzac

    So, my dear fellow, if I don’t believe in God, I believe still less in man.– Honor de Balzac

  • Of necessity she went further in aversion than she had gone in love, for her hatred was not in proportion to her love but to her disappointed hopes. – Honor de Balzac

    Of necessity she went further in aversion than she had gone in love, for her hatred was not in proportion to her love but to her disappointed hopes.– Honor de Balzac

  • Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred. – Honor de Balzac

    Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.– Honor de Balzac

  • Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. – Honor de Balzac

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

  • Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love. – Honor de Balzac

    Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.– Honor de Balzac

  • No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. – Honor de Balzac

    No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.– Honor de Balzac

  • For avarice begins where poverty ends. – Honor de Balzac

    For avarice begins where poverty ends.– Honor de Balzac

  • Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt. – Honor de Balzac

    Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.– Honor de Balzac

  • He looked like some plant bleached by darkness. – Honor de Balzac

    He looked like some plant bleached by darkness.– Honor de Balzac

  • Doing his utmost, deploying all his energy, a young man setting out from zero can wind up after ten years somewhere below where he started. – Honor de Balzac

    Doing his utmost, deploying all his energy, a young man setting out from zero can wind up after ten years somewhere below where he started.– Honor de Balzac