Honore de Balzac Noble Quotations

The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child. It involves the same efforts, the same impurities, the same laceration, and the same triumph.

Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.

Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden glow, even as the glory of a noble love shines like a sort of light from a woman's face.