Honore De Balzac Quotes

"One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul."

"I've never been Romeo who meets a girl and falls for her immediately. It's been a much slower process for me each time I've gone into a relationship."

"I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race."

"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime."

"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught."

"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart."

"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues."

"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."

"There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep."

"A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories."

"The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband."