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Honore de Balzac Quotes and Quotations
 Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. - Honore de Balzac | Government and Rule Quotes  The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. - Honore de Balzac | Marriage Quotes A mother who is really a mother is never free. - Honore de Balzac | Parenthood Quotes Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation. - Honore de Balzac | Politeness and Manners Quotes All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all. - Honore de Balzac | Will and Determination Quotes There are moments in life when all that we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at consoling words that would reveal the depths of our pain. - Honore de Balzac | Friendship in Bad Times Quotes All happiness depends on courage and work. - Honore de Balzac | Happiness Quotes We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are. - Honore de Balzac | Forgiveness Quotes Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest. - Honore de Balzac | Forgiveness Quotes Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it. - Honore de Balzac | Other Side Quotes I believe in the incomprehensibility of God. - Honore de Balzac | God Quotes Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself. - Honore de Balzac | Self-Confidence Quotes We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are. - Honore de Balzac | Positive Quotes Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating. - Honore de Balzac | Hope Quotes Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice. - Honore de Balzac | Role Models Quotes Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation. - Honore de Balzac | Worry Quotes All happiness depends on courage and work. - Honore de Balzac | Courage Quotes Necessity is often the spur to genius. - Honore de Balzac | Adversity Quotes We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are. - Honore de Balzac | Events Quotes First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time. - Honore de Balzac | Beginnings Quotes True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart. - Honore de Balzac | True Love Quotes A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning. - Honore de Balzac | Husbands Quotes To provoke laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect. - Honore de Balzac | Laughter Quotes A woman must be a genius to create a good husband. - Honore de Balzac | Marriage Quotes Modesty is the conscience of the body. - Honore de Balzac | Modesty Quotes Necessity is often the spur to genius. - Honore de Balzac | Necessity Quotes If we could but paint with the hand as we see with the eye! - Honore de Balzac | Painting Quotes Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. - Honore de Balzac | Passion Quotes Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad. - Honore de Balzac | World Quotes 
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