Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac
Honoré de Balzacbal.zak], born Honoré Balzac, 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie Humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth20 May 1799
CountryFrance
marriage mean passion
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.
marriage fighting monsters
Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.
marriage law maintenance
Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.
marriage party fighting
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.
happiness marriage couple
Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret.
funny marriage witty
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
marriage fighting routine
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.
marriage husband genius
A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
love marriage blessing
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.
marriage women cutting
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.
marriage mother country
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.
marriage men feelings
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.
marriage husband fun
Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.
marriage vexation virtue
A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.