A woman, when she has passed forty, becomes an illegible scrawl; only an old woman is capable of divining old women.


A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1886)

Honoré de Balzac Quotes

A woman, when she has passed forty, becomes an illegible scrawl; only an old woman is capable of divining old women.

A woman, when she has passed forty, becomes an illegible scrawl; only an old woman is capable of divining old women.

A woman, when she has passed forty, becomes an illegible scrawl; only an old woman is capable of divining old women.

A woman, when she has passed forty, becomes an illegible scrawl; only an old woman is capable of divining old women.