Quotes by Honore de Balzac

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.

It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

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

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

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

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.