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Woman Quotes by Honore de Balzac
- A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
- No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
- Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
- A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
- It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every…
- It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs…
- The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
- At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.
- Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
- Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy…
- A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.
- Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part…
- Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
- Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.
- Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
- A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
- In a husband there is only a man; in a married woman there is a man, a father, and mother, and a woman.
- The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical.
- From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.
- When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.
- Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
- With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to…
- When tempted to be unfaithful, the intellectual woman will try to inspire her husband with indifference, the sentimental woman with hatred, and the passionate woman…
- Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard,…
- A lui la foi, a' elle le doute, a' elle le fardeau le plus lourd: la femme ne souffre-t-elle pas toujours pour deux? For him,…
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