Honore De Balzac Quotes

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
Honore De Balzac quote

Modesty is the conscience of the body.
Honore De Balzac quote

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
Honore De Balzac quote

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
Honore De Balzac quote

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
Honore De Balzac quote

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
Honore De Balzac quote

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Honore De Balzac quote

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Honore De Balzac quote

Biography

French novelist 1799-1850