A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Quote by Honore De Balzac
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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Honore De Balzac Quotes
- A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
- I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
- Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect without esteem they cannot exist esteem is the first demand that they make of love.
- A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
- One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
- Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
- Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
- Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
- Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
- What is art? Nature concentrated.
Best Quotes
- No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.
- Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
- Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.
- The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
- I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
- By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above politics.
- We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.
- I'm a Cancerian, the typical crab with the tough outer shell and the soft bit in the middle. I don't think I'll ever come to terms with people being unnecessarily nasty, but I can take it if someone doesn't like my music - I'm not everyone's cup of tea.
- Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.
- It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.