“The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.”
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Famous Honore de Balzac Quotes
“Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts.”
Source: Cousin Bette
Source: Cousin Bette
“A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.”
“In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it.”
Source: Poor Relations: Cousin Betty and Cousin Pons
“Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.”
“One hour of love has a whole life in it.”
Source: The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin
“A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.”
“A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.”
“The more one judges, the less one loves.”
Source: The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou
“It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.”
“No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.”
Source: Letters of Two Brides
“There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.”
“Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.”
Source: Letters of Two Brides
“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”
“Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.”
“The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.”
“Love is the poetry of the senses.”
Source: The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou
“Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.”
Source: Letters of Two Brides
Source: Letters of Two Brides
“If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.”
“Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.”
Source: Letters of Two Brides
“The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.”
“First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.”
“Modesty is the conscience of the body.”
Source: Analytical Studies: Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life
Source: A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac
“One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.”
Source: The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou
“The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.”