Marriage Quotes by Honoré de Balzac

A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.

— Honore de Balzac

The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.

— Honore de Balzac

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

— Honore de Balzac

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

— Honore de Balzac

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

— Honore de Balzac

A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.

— Honore de Balzac

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

— Honore de Balzac

A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne.

— Honore de Balzac

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

Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such…

— Honore de Balzac

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

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

The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe…

— Honore de Balzac

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

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

Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the…

— Honore de Balzac

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

Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest…

— Honore de Balzac

It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary…

— Honore de Balzac

“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

“Hortense was a wife; Valerie a mistress. Many men desire to have these two editions of the same work, although it is…

— Honoré de Balzac

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

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

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

“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

Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.

— Honore de Balzac

To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.

— Honore de Balzac

A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.

— Honore de Balzac

A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.

— Honore de Balzac

One exits with one's husband -- one lives with one's lover.

— Honore de Balzac

The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

— Honore de Balzac

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

— Honore de Balzac

A woman who has made fun of her husband can love him no more

— Honore De Balzac

Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret.

— Honore de Balzac

Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

— Honore de Balzac

Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.

— Honore de Balzac

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

— Honore de Balzac

No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.

— Honore de Balzac

A woman's sentimental monkeyshines will always deceive her lover, who invariably waxes ecstatic where her husband necessarily shrugs his shoulders.

— Honore de Balzac

A husband can commit no greater blunder than to discuss his wife, if she is virtuous, with his mistress; unless it be…

— Honore de Balzac