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.

Quote by Honore De Balzac

Topics: Husbands Quotes, Marriage Quotes

Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment...

Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment...

And thus Bureaucracy, the giant power wielded by pygmies, came into the world

And thus Bureaucracy, the giant power wielded by pygmies, came into the world

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after...

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after...

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her...

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her...

Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the...

Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the...

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...

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to...

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to...

A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.

A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.

A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to...

A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to...

A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the...

A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the...

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his...

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his...

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

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...

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but...

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but...

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his...

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his...