Honoré de Balzac - Women Quotes

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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even for our virtues.

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The mistakes committed by women are almost always the result of her faith in the good and her confidence in the truth.

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Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the freshnessof a lake. There is no character in women's faces before the age of thirty.

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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.

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

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Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

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Women are demons that make us enter hell through the door of paradise.

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No man has yet discovered the means of giving successfully friendly advice to women — not even to his own.

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The most virtuous women have in them something that is never chaste.

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Women, perhaps, even require a little hypocrisy.

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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.

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My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one."

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The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true.

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In courting women, many dry wood for a fire that will not burn for them.

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When women love, they forgive everything, even our crimes; when they do not love, they cannot forgive anything, not even our virtues.

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Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the male bird.

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I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense.

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An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.

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The winters are to fashionable women what a campaign once was to the soldiers of the Empire.

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Women are constantly the dupes, or the victims, of their extreme sensitiveness.

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