Honore de Balzac Quotes and Sayings

Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815.

A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.


A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.


Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.