Honore de Balzac Quotes About Husband
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Un mari, comme un gouvernement, ne doit jamais avouer de faute. A husband, like a government, never needs to admit a fault.
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Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.
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An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.
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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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The pleasures of love proceed successively from a distich to a quatrain, from a quatrain to a sonnet, from a sonnet to a ballad, from a ballad to an ode, from an ode to a cantata, and from a cantata to a dithyramb. A husband who begins with the dithyramb is a fool.
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.
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Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.
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A husband can commit no greater blunder than to discuss his wife, if she is virtuous, with his mistress; unless it be to mention his mistress, if she is beautiful, to his wife.
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A woman's sentimental monkeyshines will always deceive her lover, who invariably waxes ecstatic where her husband necessarily shrugs his shoulders.
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A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other.
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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 woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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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.
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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
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In a husband, there is only a man; in a married woman, there is a man, a father, a mother and a woman.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes.
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A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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One exits with one's husband -- one lives with one's lover.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.
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