Honore de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac (20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie Humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus. Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. He is renowned for his multi-faceted characters; even his lesser characters are complex, morally ambiguous and fully human.
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There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.
A young bride is like a plucked flower, but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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.
Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together, every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.
To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards that is genuine pleasure.
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
The most virtuous women have something within them something that is never chaste.
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
When women love us they forgive us everything even our crimes, when they do not love us they give us credit for nothing not even our virtues.
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers no sons no mother!
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often but by striking true.
True love is eternal infinite and always like itself. It is equal and pure without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker when he is no longer compelled as among the Egyptians to succeed to his father's craft.
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom, to serve all but love only one.
When Religion and Royalty are swept away the people will attack the great and after the great they will fall upon the rich.
