Honore de Balzac Quotes
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They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse on who thought of them.
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The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
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It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.
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The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical.
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Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire.
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Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears.
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Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.
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Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity.
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With monuments as with men, position means everything.
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It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.
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The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes.
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Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest.
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A woman's sentimental monkeyshines will always deceive her lover, who invariably waxes ecstatic where her husband necessarily shrugs his shoulders.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
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A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
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The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.
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In Paris, the greatest expression of personal satisfaction known to man is the smirk on the face of a male, highly pleased with himself as he leaves the boudoir of a lady.
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Sensuality is the death of the soul.