Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
Quote by Honore De Balzac
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Honore De Balzac Quotes
- A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
- It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
- Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
- The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.
- It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.
- When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
- The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
- Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
- But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.
- A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
Best Quotes
- In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
- I only answer to two people, myself and God.
- Marriage is a great institution.
- Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
- A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
- Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
- Humility is truth.
- There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
- Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
- Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.