Honore De Balzac Quotes, Fashion Quotes, Kings Quotes

The fashions we call English in Paris are French in London, and vice versa. Franco-British hostility vanishes when it comes to questions of words and clothing. God save the King is a tune composed by Lully for a chorus in a play by Racine.

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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.

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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

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Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.

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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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A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.

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For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?

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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!

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This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at fault for an excuse, which makes an outcry at the wound which it condones, is one of the most distinctive features of the journalist. This camaraderie (the word is a stroke of genius) corrodes the noblest minds; it eats into their pride like rust, kills the germ of great deeds, and lends a sanction to moral cowardice.

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A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.

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I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . . . to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing.

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The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.

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A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.

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It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.

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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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Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.

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My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one."

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Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.

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

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Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.

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