Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
HONORE DE BALZACHatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
-
-
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Love is the poetry of the senses.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
HONORE DE BALZAC