Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
Quote by Honore De Balzac
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Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
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Honore De Balzac Quotes
- First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
- Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
- True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
- Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
- Love is the poetry of the senses.
- What is art? Nature concentrated.
- A young bride is like a plucked flower but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
- Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
- A mother who is really a mother is never free.
- 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
- Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
- If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling.
- Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.
- If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny.
- Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
- In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.
- Not much shocked me. You know, I worked in a home for Alzheimer's patients and my dad used to be really into murders and stuff, so I saw dead bodies. It desensitised me to a lot of things.
- True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
- Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
- Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.