Honore de Balzac

A mother who is really a mother is never free. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#free #mother #never #really #who

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. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#act #every #fashion #her #joy

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#manners #nation

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#believe #immortality #marriage #should #soul

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#make #pregnancy #sly #smile #some

Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#careless #daylight #difference #gambler #his

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#giant #mechanism #operated #pygmies

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#being #beside #cuts #essentially #everything

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

— Honore de Balzac

#contend #devours #everything #familiarity #incessantly

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

— Honore de Balzac

#face #knows #loves #man #open