Honore de Balzac Quotes About Feelings
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Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among the Holy Saints.
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The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.
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A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and awakens the most magnificent feelings in his heart.
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Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity.
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One admirable trait in women is their lack of illusions about themselves. They never reason about their most blameworthy actions; their feelings carry them away. Even their dissimulation comes naturally to them, and in them crime is free of all baseness. Most of the time they simply do not know how it happened.
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But also remember: if you have any genuine feelings, hide them like treasure; never let anyone so much as suspect them, or you're lost. Instead of being the executioner, you'll be the victim. And if you ever fall in love, keep that absolutely secret! Never breathe a word until you're completely sure of the person to whom you open your heart. And to protect that love, even before you feel it, learn to despise the world.
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Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.
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Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.
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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.
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Though your vulgarian does not readily admit that feelings can change overnight, certainly two lovers often part far more abruptly than they came together.
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L'amour n'est pas seulement un sentiment, il est un art aussi. Love is not only a feeling; it is also an art.
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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post facto; the latter feel and judge at one and the same time.
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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.
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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man's life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool's notion of history.
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Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.
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Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.
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Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them.
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I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.
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However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and colors his voice. The stupidest man will often, under the stress of passion, achieve heights of eloquence, in thought if not in language, and seem to move in some luminous sphere. Goriot's voice and gesture had at this moment the power of communication that characterizes the great actor. Are not our finer feelings the poems of the human will?
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Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.
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Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.
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Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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Nos beaux sentiments ne sont-ils pas les poe sies de la volonte ? Aren't our best feelings poetry of the will?
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