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
Click on the picture of Honore De Balzac quote you want to see a larger version.
A young bride is like a plucked flower but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
Click on the picture of Honore De Balzac quote you want to see a larger version.
Honore De Balzac Quotes
- Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
- All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
- 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.
- Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
- Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
- 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.
- Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.
- What is art? Nature concentrated.
- When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
Best Quotes
- The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
- I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing.
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
- One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up.
- But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance.
- I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
- People hurt you again if you can't give them any more.
- By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for the precisely correct soccer cleat.
- It's not easy to define poetry.
- We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.