Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
Quote by Honoré de Balzac about end, love
Quotes by Honoré de Balzac
69 quotes by Honoré de Balzac
Honoré De Balzac, French Novelist
Was born on 20 may 1799. Died on 18 aug 1850, at 51 years old.
Origin country: France
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
Quote by Honoré de Balzac about pasion, humanity, religion, history, art, magic
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
Quote by Honoré de Balzac about husband, sleep, night, good, good luck
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Quote by Honoré de Balzac about blind, husband, marriage, wife, good, good luck
A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
Quote by Honoré de Balzac about husband
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
Quote by Honoré de Balzac about past, future, mother, happiness
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Quote by Honoré de Balzac about woman, man, face
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Quote by Honoré de Balzac about humanity, religion, history, art, magic
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
Quote by Honoré de Balzac about existence, man
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
Quote by Honoré de Balzac about time, love, man
I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
Quote by Honoré de Balzac about human imperfections
If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.
Quote by Honoré de Balzac about spring, enemies, youth, human imperfections, world, life
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
Quote by Honoré de Balzac about pleasure
