| | |

Letters of Two Brides quotes

Honoré de Balzac

English (18) Français (17)

edits filters

“A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.” Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides
“It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.” Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides
“Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.” Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides
“Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.” Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides
“The fact is that love is of two kinds—one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.” Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides
“The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.” Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides
“A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.” Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides
“Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.” Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides
“A mother, who is really a mother, is never free.” Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides
“Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.” Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides
“Worse than all, you are candid, and it often happens that our happiness depends on certain social hypocrisies to which you will never stoop.” Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides
“The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.” Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides
“A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future, but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.” Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides
“Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.” Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides
“A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.” Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides
“Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.” Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides
“Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.” Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides
“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.” Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides

Related topics

mother woman joy silence love husband happiness society motherhood immensity feeling death duplicity devotion fear commandment freedom words beauty greatness

Links

Honoré de Balzac quotes