I am not deep, but I am very wide. Honore de Balzac More Quotes by Honore de Balzac More Quotes From Honore de Balzac Women, perhaps even require a little hypocrisy. Honore de Balzac women hypocrisy littles The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius. Honore de Balzac karma secret past Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live. Honore de Balzac music kind two One hour of love has a whole life in it. Honore de Balzac one-hour whole-life hours But woman brings disorder into society through passion. Honore de Balzac passion disorder Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones. Honore de Balzac bigs law France is a country that loves to change their government if it is always the same. Honore de Balzac france government country Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him. Honore de Balzac girl education children A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings. Honore de Balzac stupid education children They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse on who thought of them. Honore de Balzac bed stupid world Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears. Honore de Balzac smile motherhood tears A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other. Honore de Balzac found-happiness husband hate Necessity is the spur of genius. Honore de Balzac spurs genius One exits with one's husband -- one lives with one's lover. Honore de Balzac exit husband lovers Is there any instinct more deeply implanted in the heart of man than the pride of protection, a protection which is constantly exerted for a fragile and defenceless creature? Honore de Balzac pride heart men Behind every fortune there is a crime. Honore de Balzac crime behinds fortune I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . . . to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing. Honore de Balzac well-known wind thinking Six weeks with a fever is an eternity. Honore de Balzac fever six eternity To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live.... To stroll is to enjoy, it is to assume a mind-set, it is to admire the sublime pictures of unhappiness, of love, of joy, of graceful or grotesque portraits; it is to plunge one's vision to the depths of a thousand existences: young, it is to desire everything; old, it is to live the life of the young, to marry their passions. Honore de Balzac live-life passion eye Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an alliance with virtue, that a woman never shows to full advantage except as a mother. Then alone can her character expand in the fulfillment of all life's duties and the enjoyment of all its pleasures. Honore de Balzac mother character children
