Honore de Balzac Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.”

“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”

“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.”

“First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.”

“Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.”

“A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.”

“The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.”

“Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.”

“One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.”

“There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.”