Famous Honor de Balzac Quotes

  • Journalism, look you, is the religion of modern society. – Honor de Balzac

    Journalism, look you, is the religion of modern society.– Honor de Balzac

  • Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine. – Honor de Balzac

    Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.– Honor de Balzac

  • Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine. – Honor de Balzac

    Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.– Honor de Balzac

  • Reading brings us unknown friends – Honor de Balzac

    Reading brings us unknown friends– Honor de Balzac

  • Virtue will cut your head off, vice will only cut your hair. – Honor de Balzac

    Virtue will cut your head off, vice will only cut your hair.– Honor de Balzac

  • Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves! – Honor de Balzac

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

  • Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling. – Honor de Balzac

    Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.– Honor de Balzac

  • Poverty has in its favour an exquisite sleep filled with beautiful dreams. – Honor de Balzac

    Poverty has in its favour an exquisite sleep filled with beautiful dreams.– Honor de Balzac

  • Cruelty and fear shake hands together. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence. – Honor de Balzac

    Cruelty and fear shake hands together. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.– Honor de Balzac

  • Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. – Honor de Balzac

    Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.– Honor de Balzac