Source: Analytical Studies: Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life
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Famous Honore de Balzac Quotes
Source: A Woman of Thirty
“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.”
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
“No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.”
“Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.”
“Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.”
“The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.”
Source: The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou