Honore De Balzac Marriage Quotes

#1. A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man's appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.

Honore De Balzac

#2. Parent may hinder their children's marriage; but children cannot interfere with the insane acts of their parents in their second childhood.

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#3. Le mariage doit incessamment combattre un monstre qui de v ore tout: l'habitude. Marriage should always combat the monster that devours everything: habit.

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

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#5. Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.

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#6. One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

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

Honore De Balzac

#8. I paint ideas, not things. My intention is less to paint works that are pleasing to the eye than to suggest great thoughts which will speak to the imagination and the heart and will arouse all that is noblest and best in man.

George Frederic Watts

#9. I think the art world heightens the intensity of desires for inclusion, and the humiliations of exclusion, which is why it's a great place to circulate when you are in the lucky position, as I am, of not wanting or needing anything from anyone.

Rachel Kushner

#10. The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical.

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#11. Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

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#12. Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theologic virtues of marriage.

Honore De Balzac

#13. In the time it takes American literary titan William H. Gass to write a novel, other artists have been born, completed their life's work and died. That may be an exaggeration, but only a slight one.

Tony D'Souza

#14. Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.

Honore De Balzac

#15. My parents mean well," Grace said. "They want me to succeed."
"Well of course," Mallory said. "They love you. But I'm thinking success and happiness don't get along. Sometimes you have to sacrifice one for the other.

Jill Shalvis

#16. Innovation is new stuff that is made useful.

Max McKeown

#17. A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.

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#18. Take courage, Willie; brighter days will come by and by.

Harriet Jacobs

#19. Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret.

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#20. Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.

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#21. A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

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#22. Hortense was a wife; Valerie a mistress.
Many men desire to have these two editions of the same work, although it is proof of deep inferiority in a man if he cannot make his wife his mistress. Seeking variety is a sign of impotence.

Honore De Balzac

#23. You have cheese in your hair," Kit says. "Right there." He motions to the spot. I don't pull it out. Let the cheese have my hair.

Tarryn Fisher

#24. Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most audacious of enterprises; the battle is not slow to start, and victory, that is to say freedom, goes to the cleverest.

Honore De Balzac

#25. To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely.

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#26. When passion is not fed, it changes to need. At this juncture, marriage becomes a fixed idea in the mind of the bourgeois, being the only means whereby he can win a woman and appropriate her to his uses.

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#27. A husband and wife found themselves in love with each other for the first time after twenty-seven years of marriage.

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#28. A childhood filled with adventures, happiness and unabated love.
If only I could remember ...

Lynda Fisher

#29. Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

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#30. A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

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#31. Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

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#32. I guess the drinking and the drugs are interesting to me because the way we use them and our society uses them, we kind of manufacture highs and lows.

Craig Finn