Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man's appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.
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Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.
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Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.
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Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!
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The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion to happiness.
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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
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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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Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.
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Only when one has learned to acknowledge that wiser minds have made better words to come out of our mouths may we truly, then, begin to speak them.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.
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The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot.
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Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
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No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival.
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A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and awakens the most magnificent feelings in his heart.
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The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.
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A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her lover. This is all the more true when that woman is young, pretty, and so decollete as to emerge from the neck of her gown in the costume of Eve.
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Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.
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When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.
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When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.
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Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.
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Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.
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The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness.