Honore de Balzac Quotes

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.

Love is a game in which one always cheats.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

Cruelty and fear shake hands together

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

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.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.