Quotes by Balzac, Honore De

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

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit >>

To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect >>

Quotations about Women

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her >>

Maybe I couldn't make it. Maybe I don't have a pretty smile, good teet >>

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, i >>

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 out virtues.

Balzac, Honore De