If certain women walk straight into adultery, there are many others who cling to numerous hopes, and commit sin only after wandering through a maze of sorrows.

Quote by Honore De Balzac

Topics: Adultery Quotes

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.

Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no...

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no...

A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which...

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which...

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect...

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect...

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no...

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no...

Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the...

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the...

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like...

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like...

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it...

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it...

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without...

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without...

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy...

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy...

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two...

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two...

The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.

The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other...

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other...

Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.

Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.