Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Quote by Honore De Balzac

Topics: Hypocrisy Quotes, Manners Quotes

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...

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to...

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to...

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill...

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill...

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you...

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you...

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

A woman who has made fun of her husband can love him no more

A woman who has made fun of her husband can love him no more

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

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.

A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a...

A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a...

Genius is intensity

Genius is intensity

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.

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...

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get...

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get...

Power is the capacity to distort information

Power is the capacity to distort information

Jah will never give the power to a baldhead!

Jah will never give the power to a baldhead!

Any change, any loss, does not make us victims. Others can shake you, surprise you,...

Any change, any loss, does not make us victims. Others can shake you, surprise you,...