One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy. Honore de Balzac More Quotes by Honore de Balzac More Quotes From Honore de Balzac A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die. Honore de Balzac martyr great-writers doe Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop. Honore de Balzac hypocrisy social happiness Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice. Honore de Balzac innocence audacity vices When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and wit a little more? Honore de Balzac good-man fashion littles A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in defending a common treasure; it is weak when composed of scattered individuals, to whom it matters little whether they obey seven or one, a Russian or a Corsican, so long as each keeps his own plot of land, blind in their wretched egotism, to the fact that the day is coming when this too will be torn from them. Honore de Balzac family strong country Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown. Honore de Balzac gambling men lying Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones. Honore de Balzac france matter people Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain. Honore de Balzac mockery tongue eye The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption. Honore de Balzac women liberty mean The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share. Honore de Balzac revenge happiness world Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation. Honore de Balzac nations hypocrisy manners Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable. Honore de Balzac passion vices mother The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. Honore de Balzac marriage witty funny Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all. Honore de Balzac repentance sin powerful 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 with disgust. Honore de Balzac husband hatred temptation Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad. Honore de Balzac said believe world My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one." Honore de Balzac chivalry women advice No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover. Honore de Balzac wife husband lovers God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven. Honore de Balzac player men heaven A girl's coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside; a woman's coquetry is endless, she shrouds herself in veil after veil, she satisfies every demand of man's vanity, the novice responds but to one. Honore de Balzac women girl thinking
