Quotes by Honore de Balzac

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

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

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion it is a joy of every moment.

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

A young bride is like a plucked flower but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.

“Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.”

“Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man”