HONORE DE BALZAC QUOTES

"I shall succeed!" he said to himself. So says the gambler; so says the great captain; but the three words that have been the salvation of some few, have been the ruin of many more.

A child is tied to our heart-strings, as the spheres are linked to their creator; we cannot think of God except as a mother's heart writ large. 

A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

A man is a poor creature compared to a woman

A man ought not to marry without having studied anatomy, and dissected at least one woman.

A mother, who is really a mother, is never free.

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

A mother’s life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who is in love no longer belongs to himself, and may not take his own life