Honore De Balzac Woman Of Thirty Quotes

#1. But woman brings disorder into society through passion.

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#2. The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.

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#3. Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!

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#4. 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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#5. For businessmen, the world is a bale of banknotes in circulation; for most young men, it is a woman; for some women, it is a man; and for others it may be a salon, a coterie, a part of town or a whole city.

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#6. Love is the most melodious of all harmonies and the sentiment of love is innate. Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.

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#7. Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.

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#8. What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible.

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#9. The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness.

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#10. No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.

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

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#12. A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.

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#13. A lui la foi, a' elle le doute, a' elle le fardeau le plus lourd: la femme ne souffre-t-elle pas toujours pour deux? For him, faith; for her, doubt and for her theheavier load: does not the woman always suffer for both?

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#14. In a husband there is only a man; in a married woman there is a man, a father, and mother, and a woman.

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#15. From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.

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#16. When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights to see captured by storm.

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#17. A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the fig leaf our Mother Eve bequeathed to her.

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#18. It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

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#19. Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire.

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#20. 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.

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#21. It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.

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#22. Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.

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#23. No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion.

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

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#25. When tempted to be unfaithful, the intellectual woman will try to inspire her husband with indifference, the sentimental woman with hatred, and the passionate woman with disgust.

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#26. Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her.

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#27. A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

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#28. In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.

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#29. To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.

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#30. Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

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