Honoré de Balzac Quotes

“Most of us spend a good part of our lives in clearing our minds of the notions that sprang up unchecked during our nonage. This is called 'getting our experience.'”

― Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions

topic:youth experience

“A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides

topic:woman

“It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides

topic:woman joy

“Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot

topic:success

“It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides

topic:greatness

“Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot

topic:suffering

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

― Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides

topic:silence

“Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot

“Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides

topic:joy sorrow

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