Mother Quotes by Honoré de Balzac

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

— Honore de Balzac

What is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood?

— Honore de Balzac

The future of a nation lies in the hands of mothers.

— 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

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

— Honore de Balzac

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

— Honore de Balzac

Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at…

— Honore de Balzac

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

How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy…

— Honore de Balzac

Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome…

— Honore de Balzac

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond…

— 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

Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an…

— Honore de Balzac

A sick man, surrounded by those who love him, nursed by those who wish earnestly that he should live, will recover (all…

— Honore de Balzac

Le coeur d'une me' re est un ab|"me au fond duquel se trouve toujours un pardon. A mother'sheart isanabyss atthebottomof whichthere is…

— Honore de Balzac

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

Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality,…

— Honore de Balzac

Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

— Honore de Balzac

A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in…

— Honore de Balzac

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

To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck…

— Honore de Balzac

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has…

— Honore de Balzac