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Honore de Balzac quotes (13)

Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.
Honore de Balzac   Category: World

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a mans entire existence.
Honore de Balzac   Category: Color

All human power is a compound of time and patience.
Honore de Balzac   Category: Patience

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion history romance and art would be useless.
Honore de Balzac   Category: Passion

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often but by striking true.
Honore de Balzac   Category: Power

Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
Honore de Balzac   Category: Crime

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
Honore de Balzac   Category: Marriage

Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
Honore de Balzac   Category: Solitude

What is art? Nature concentrated.
Honore de Balzac   Category: Art

Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
Honore de Balzac   Category: Cruel

Vocations which we wanted to pursue but didnt bleed like colors on the whole of our existence.
Honore de Balzac   Category: Unsorted

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
Honore de Balzac   Category: Husband

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
Honore de Balzac   Category: Music