Honore De Balzac Marriage Quotes & Sayings

A husband and wife found themselves in love with each other for the first time after twenty-seven years of marriage. — Honore De Balzac

Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most audacious of enterprises; the battle is not slow to start, and victory, that is to say freedom, goes to the cleverest. — Honore De Balzac

Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theologic virtues of marriage. — Honore De Balzac

The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical. — Honore De Balzac

Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit. — Honore De Balzac

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband. — Honore De Balzac

Hortense was a wife; Valerie a mistress.
Many men desire to have these two editions of the same work, although it is proof of deep inferiority in a man if he cannot make his wife his mistress. Seeking variety is a sign of impotence. — Honore De Balzac

Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises. — Honore De Balzac

A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other. — Honore De Balzac

Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature. — Honore De Balzac

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. — Honore De Balzac

Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences. — Honore De Balzac

When passion is not fed, it changes to need. At this juncture, marriage becomes a fixed idea in the mind of the bourgeois, being the only means whereby he can win a woman and appropriate her to his uses. — Honore De Balzac

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity. — Honore De Balzac

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning. — Honore De Balzac

Parent may hinder their children's marriage; but children cannot interfere with the insane acts of their parents in their second childhood. — Honore De Balzac

Le mariage doit incessamment combattre un monstre qui de v ore tout: l'habitude. Marriage should always combat the monster that devours everything: habit. — Honore De Balzac

Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine. — Honore De Balzac

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. — Honore De Balzac

Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret. — Honore De Balzac

A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man's appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her. — Honore De Balzac

Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands. — Honore De Balzac

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. — Honore De Balzac