Honore de Balzac Is Quotations

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

Love is a game in which one always cheats.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, ...

Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.

We love because we love.

Love is the most melodious of all harmonies.

True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe's conceit.

To speak of love is to make love.

Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.

Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights.

Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theologic virtues of marriage.

Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes to mark its passage by a trail of devastation.

L'amour n'est pas seulement un sentiment, il est un art aussi. Love is not only a feeling; it is also an art.

Life is simply what out feelings do to us.

A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.