A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty… — Honore De Balzac Copy Share Image
Constancy will always be the genius of love, the indication of that strength which constitutes the poet. A man should possess all… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The pleasures of love proceed successively from a distich to a quatrain, from a quatrain to a sonnet, from a sonnet to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
She who is really a wife, one in heart, flesh, and bone, must follow wherever he leads, in whom her life, her… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“She is right,” said the baroness. “We are sent into the world to marry.” “Do you encourage her in disobedience?” said the… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
When passion is not fed, it changes to need. At this juncture, marriage becomes a fixed idea in the mind of the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness.… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Piombo and his wife, persons without education, had allowed Ginevra to study as she pleased. Following her caprices as a young girl,… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
In a husband, there is only a man; in a married woman, there is a man, a father, a mother and a… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Le mariage doit incessamment combattre un monstre qui de v ore tout: l'habitude. Marriage should always combat the monster that devours everything:… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over. — 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… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
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… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
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
