Balzac Quotes

You will make the world understand my Balzac through these pictures. - Auguste Rodin

You may imitate, but never counterfeit. - Honore De Balzac

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love. - Honore De Balzac

Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling. - Honore De Balzac

Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her. - Honore De Balzac

With monuments as with men, position means everything. - Honore De Balzac

Wit needs leisure, and certain inequalities of position. - Honore De Balzac

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love. - Honore De Balzac

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. - Honore De Balzac

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich. - Honore De Balzac