I am not deep, but I am very wide. Honore de Balzac More Quotes by Honore de Balzac More Quotes From Honore de Balzac Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me,-she is like a heavenly angel forgiving the strange incomprehensible sins of earth. Honore de Balzac forgiving girl angel 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 that one encounters only too rarely. Honore de Balzac marriage mother country For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds. Honore de Balzac noble mind people Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying in stores of knowledge and energy, so that they shall not sink under the weight of responsible posts that recede from them, schemers come and go who are wealthy in words and destitute of ideas, astonish the ignorant, and creep into the confidence of those who have a little knowledge. Honore de Balzac ambition mistake success Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at a wedding and men smile. Honore de Balzac girl mother men Economized love is never real love. Honore de Balzac real heart love The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can. Honore de Balzac deposits boxes safe A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible. Honore de Balzac women children thinking It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role. Honore de Balzac strong mother exercise An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities. Honore de Balzac wife husband kings Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes. Honore de Balzac wife husband couple A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne. Honore de Balzac sarcasm wife sarcastic Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit. Honore de Balzac handsome widows twelve The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger. Honore de Balzac sauntering despair men A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation. Honore de Balzac occupation born twins My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts. Honore de Balzac my-thoughts tables writing When in Turkey, do as the turkeys do. Honore de Balzac turkeys How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice! Honore de Balzac failing quality vices Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability. Honore de Balzac riches gains special A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste. Honore de Balzac girl may school
