Over 40,000 Famous Quotes Sorted By Topic and Author

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
Topic: Advice
Author: 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.
Author: Honore De Balzac
Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
Topic: Cruelty
Author: Honore De Balzac
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
Topic: Exaggeration
Author: Honore De Balzac
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
Topic: Exaggeration
Author: Honore De Balzac
To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
Author: Honore De Balzac
I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
Author: Honore De Balzac
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Topic: Friendship
Author: Honore De Balzac
To kill a relative of whom you are tired is one thing. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is a genuine pleasure.
Topic: Inheritance
Author: Honore De Balzac
Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from?
Topic: Livery
Author: Honore De Balzac
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
Author: Honore De Balzac
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.
Author: Honore De Balzac
Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
Author: Honore De Balzac
Modesty is the conscience of the body.
Topic: Modesty
Author: Honore De Balzac
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
Topic: Mothers
Author: Honore De Balzac
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Topic: Passion
Author: Honore De Balzac
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
Topic: Passion
Author: Honore De Balzac
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
Topic: Pleasure
Author: Honore De Balzac
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
Author: Honore De Balzac
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Author: Honore De Balzac
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