A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. - Honore de Balzac. View more images...

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love. - Honore de Balzac. View more images...

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity. - Honore de Balzac . View more images...

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one. - Honore de Balzac. View more images...

Love is a game in which one always cheats. - Honore de Balzac. View more images...

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues. - Honore de Balzac. View more images...

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. - Honore de Balzac. View more images...

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. - Honore de Balzac. View more images...

Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief - Honore de Balzac. View more images...

Love is the poetry of the senses. - Honore de Balzac. View more images...

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other. - Honore de Balzac. View more images...

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way. - Honore de Balzac . View more images...

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane. - Honore de Balzac . View more images...

The more one judges, the less one loves. - Honore de Balzac. View more images...

Life cannot go on without much forgetting. - Honore de Balzac. View more images...