The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.
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Aphorisms by Honoré de Balzac
A girl's coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside; a woman's coquetry is endless, she shrouds herself in veil after veil, she satisfies every demand of man's vanity, the novice responds but to one.
And there are terrors, fears, and hesitations — trouble and storm in the love of a woman of thirty years, never to be found in a young girl's love. At thirty years a woman asks her lover to give her back the esteem she has forfeited for his sake; she lives only for him, her thoughts are full of his future, he must have a great career, she bids him make it glorious; she can obey, entreat, command, humble herself, or rise in pride; times without number she brings comfort when a young girl can only make moan.
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Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Job)
I am a galley slave to pen and ink.
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Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Women, perhaps, even require a little hypocrisy.
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When religion and royalty are destroyed the people will attack the nobles; after the nobles, the rich.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
To those who have exhausted statecraft, nothing remains but the realm of pure thought.
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