“The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.”
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Famous Honore de Balzac Quotes
“Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.”
“A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne.”
“Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.”
“Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her.”
“Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.”
“Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.”
“The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.”
“Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.”
Source: The Atheist's Mass
“One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.”
Source: Pere Goriot and Eugenie Grandet
“Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.”
Source: Pere Goriot and Eugenie Grandet
Source: Louis Lambert
Source: The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin
“But does not happiness come from the soul within?”
Source: The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin
Source: Letters of Two Brides
Source: A Woman at Thirty
“Women, perhaps even require a little hypocrisy.”
Source: The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin
“Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.”
Source: Analytical Studies: Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life
“The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.”
Source: The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin
Source: The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin
Source: A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac
Source: A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac
Source: Letters of Two Brides