Honore Balzac Quotes (10 Quotes)

Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden glow, even as the glory of a noble love shines like a sort of light from a woman's face.

He went to bed and slept the sleep of the good-for-nothing which, by an anachronism not a single songwriter has yet struck, is proven to be more sound than that of innocence

To our shame a woman is never so much attached to us as when we suffer

In a husband there is only a man in a married woman there is a man, a father, and mother, and a woman

A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness

The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true

Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream.

Wit needs leisure, and certain inequalities of position

A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea.

A courage which looks easy and yet is rare the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage