Honore de Balzac Doe Quotations

Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire.

Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency.

Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.

When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.

Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.

Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?]

Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.

He's got his dog trained so that it only does it on newspapers. The trouble is it does it when he's reading the blasted things.

But does not happiness come from the soul within?

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

A lui la foi, a' elle le doute, a' elle le fardeau le plus lourd: la femme ne souffre-t-elle pas toujours pour deux? For him, faith; for her, doubt and for her theheavier load: does not the woman always suffer for both?

The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes.

Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.