Honore de Balzac Quotes About Love
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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.
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A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who is in love no longer belongs to himself, and may not take his own life. Love makes us almost sacred in our own eyes; it is the life of another that we revere within us; then and so begins for us the cruelest trouble of all.
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Love is the most melodious of all harmonies.
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Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most audacious of enterprises; the battle is not slow to start, and victory, that is to say freedom, goes to the cleverest.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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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.
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In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.
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The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God
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At thirty years a woman asks her lover to give her back the esteem she has forfeited for his sake; she lives only for him, her thoughts are full of his future, he must have a great career, she bids him make it glorious; she can obey, entreat, command, humble herself, or rise in pride; times without number she brings comfort when a young girl can only make moan.
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The pleasures of love proceed successively from a distich to a quatrain, from a quatrain to a sonnet, from a sonnet to a ballad, from a ballad to an ode, from an ode to a cantata, and from a cantata to a dithyramb. A husband who begins with the dithyramb is a fool.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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The man whom fate employs to awaken love in the heart of a young girl is often unaware of his work and therefore leaves it uncompleted.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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The union of a want and a sentiment.
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A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry.
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A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur.
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Vulgar souls look hastily and superficially at the sea and accuse it of monotony; other more privileged beings could spend a lifetime admiring it and discovering new and changing phenomena that delight them. So it is with love.
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth.
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To speak of love is to make love.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.
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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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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation.
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