When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“This costume, utterly uncouth, seemed to have been invented as a final test of grace, and to show that there was nothing… — Honoré 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
The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Your women of fashion ceases to be a woman. She is neither mother, nor wife, nor lover. She is, medically speaking, sex… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The fashions we call English in Paris are French in London, and vice versa. Franco-British hostility vanishes when it comes to questions… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a… — 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 Image
“You have broken the ice, though you have not even scratched its glossy surface: you have placed your hand upon the croup of the most ferocious and savage, the most wakeful and clear-sighted, the most restless, the swiftest, the most jealous, the most ardent and violent, the simplest and most elegant, the most unreasonable, the most watchful chimera 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 Image
My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts. — 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 of the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion and of the lamb, Prayer! Prayer will give you the key of heaven! Bold and pure as innocence, strong, like all that is single and simple, this glorious, invincible Queen rests, nevertheless, on the material world;… — 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 Image
