Honore de Balzac Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

Zitat des Tages von Honore de Balzac:

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

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.

Honore de Balzac

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Honore de Balzac

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

Honore de Balzac

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

Honore de Balzac

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.

Honore de Balzac

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

Honore de Balzac

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

Honore de Balzac

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

Honore de Balzac

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

Honore de Balzac

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

Honore de Balzac

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

Honore de Balzac

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

Honore de Balzac

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

Honore de Balzac

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

Honore de Balzac

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

Honore de Balzac

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

Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

Honore de Balzac

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

Honore de Balzac

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Honore de Balzac

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

Honore de Balzac

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

Honore de Balzac

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.

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.

Honore de Balzac

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

Honore de Balzac

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

Honore de Balzac

A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.

Honore de Balzac

Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

Honore de Balzac

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

Honore de Balzac

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

Honore de Balzac

The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

Honore de Balzac

The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

Honore de Balzac

It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.

Honore de Balzac

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Honore de Balzac

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

Honore de Balzac

Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys.

Honore de Balzac

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

Honore de Balzac