More quotes by 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."
"Love is the poetry of the senses!"
"A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea."
"If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye."
"Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other."