Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
In smart society men are jealous of one another after the fashion of women. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
One admirable trait in women is their lack of illusions about themselves. They never reason about their most blameworthy actions; their feelings… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Many of us marvel at the icy insensitivity with which women snuff out their armours. But if they did not blot out… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves! — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
To man, faith; to woman, doubt. She bears the heavier burden. Does not woman invariably suffer for two? — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Oh, my friend, when you love, love a woman whom you are sure that you can love always. Never forsake a woman.” — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share
“You have broken the ice, though you have not even scratched its glossy surface: you have placed your hand upon the croup of the… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share
It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share
My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share
Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share
Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share
One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share
White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share
All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share
The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share
Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share
