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)