A young bride is like a plucked flower but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
Quote by Honore De Balzac
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A young bride is like a plucked flower but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
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Honore De Balzac Quotes
- Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
- It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
- All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
- Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
- Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
- Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
- Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
- The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
- A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
- Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
Best Quotes
- Sometimes I lose a whole morning waiting on journalists and other people who look for me. But I always find some time for reading, talking to my friends and feeling what is happening in this world.
- Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
- I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there's no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That's all crap.
- Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.
- I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.
- When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
- Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
- Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
- Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.
- Anyone working for a big company might be skeptical that a large business, or even a strictly online business, can form the same kind of friendly, loyal relationship with customers as a local retailer. I'm saying it's already been done because I lived it.