The Girl With The Golden Eyes Quotes

“True love rules especially through memory.”
― Honoré de Balzac, The Girl With The Golden Eyes

“There everything is tolerated: the government and the guillotine, religion and the cholera. You are always acceptable to this world, you will never be missed by it. What, then, is the dominating impulse in this country without morals, without faith, without any sentiment, wherein, however, every sentiment, belief, and moral has its origin and end? It is gold and pleasure. Take”
― Honoré de Balzac, The Girl with the Golden Eyes

“Only, the working-man dies in hospital when the last term of his stunted growth expires; whereas the man of the middle class is set upon living, and lives on, but in a state of idiocy. You”
― Honoré de Balzac, The Girl with the Golden Eyes

“Were it not for the cabarets, would not the Government be overturned every Tuesday? Happily, by Tuesday, this people is glutted, sleeps off its pleasure, is penniless, and returns to its labor, to dry bread, stimulated by a need of material procreation, which has become a habit to it. None”
― Honoré de Balzac, The Girl with the Golden Eyes

“A few observations upon the soul of Paris may explain the causes of its cadaverous physiognomy, which has but two ages—youth and decay: youth, wan and colorless; decay, painted to seem young.”
― Honoré de Balzac, The Girl with the Golden Eyes

“A force de s'intéresser à tout, le Parisien finit par ne s'intéresser à rien.”
― Honoré de Balzac, The Girl With The Golden Eyes