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Honoré de Balzac on Mother's Day

1799–1850 France

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10 quotes

Science is the language of the Temporal world, Love is that of the Spiritual world.

Séraphîta (1835)

Wisdom is the understanding of celestial things to which the Spirit is brought by Love.

Séraphîta (1835)

The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.

Letters of Two Brides (1841)

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

Letters of Two Brides (1841)

The more a man judges, the less he loves.

Musicians are seldom unemotional; a woman who could sing like that must know how to love indeed.

The Wild Ass’s Skin (1831)

Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears.

Letters of Two Brides (1841)

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

A Woman of Thirty (1842)

No man would have torn himself from the comfort of a morning nap to listen to a minstrel in a jacket; none but a maid awakes to songs of love.

Pierrette (1840)

Unfortunately her portrait will cure no one of the addiction to loving sweetly smiling angels with dreamy looks, innocent faces, and a strong-box for a heart.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Honoré de Balzac (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.