Honore de Balzac Quotes
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A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply.
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Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.
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Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.
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The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.
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No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.
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Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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A woman questions the man who loves exactly as a judge questions a criminal. This being so, a flash of the eye, a mere word, an inflection of the voice or a moment's hesitation suffice to expose the fact, betrayal or crime he is attempting to conceal.
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Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions.
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No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
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Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights.
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.
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A husband can commit no greater blunder than to discuss his wife, if she is virtuous, with his mistress; unless it be to mention his mistress, if she is beautiful, to his wife.
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Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest of all undertakings to swear eternal love; the fight at once commences and victory, that is to say liberty, remains in the hands of the cleverer of the two.
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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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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.