Balzac

Famous quotes containing the word balzac:

“Like many other widows, she had an unwholesome wish to marry again.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)

“A widow has two duties of a contradictory nature—she is a mother, and she ought to exert a father’s power.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)

“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.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)