Honore de Balzac Love Is Quotations

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

Love is a game in which one always cheats.

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

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.

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

Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.

To speak of love is to make love.

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.

Love is the most melodious of all harmonies.

We love because we love.

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.

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

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