Quotes About Honore

These words struck the vicar a blow, which he felt the more because his late reverie had made him completely happy.

Before taking up the subject of modesty, it may perhaps be necessary to inquire whether there is such a thing. Is it anything in a woman but well understood coquetry?

Men may weary by their constancy, but women never.

Therefore Prayer, issuing from so many trials, is the consummation of all truths, all powers, all feelings.

In the terrific tumult of raving passions, the holy Voice would have been unheard.

Science is the language of the Temporal world, Love is that of the Spiritual world.

Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

Smoke. Smoke. Smoke. Only a pipe distinguishes man from beast.

The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.

To those who have exhausted statecraft, nothing remains but the realm of pure thought.

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

The word 'love,' used in connection with the reproduction of our species, is the most odious blasphemy taught in our times.

Poverty has in its favour an exquisite sleep filled with beautiful dreams.

she perceived several couples whose too hearty glee suggested nothing conjugal;

Votre cousin est mignon, mignon, mais vraiment mignon.

She is right," said the baroness. "We are sent into the world to marry." "Do you encourage her in disobedience?" said the baron to his wife, who, terrified by the word, now changed to marble. "Refusing to obey an unjust order is not disobedience," said Ginevra.

Principles are the pivot on which the hands of the political barometer turn." There was an instant shout of laughter.

It is from the shock of characters, and not from the struggle of opinions, that antipathies are generated.

The mud splashes you as you drive through it in your carriage—you are a respectable person; you go afoot and are splashed—you are a scoundrel

Une des plus grandes niaiseries du commerce parisien est de vouloir trouver le succès dans les analogues, quand il est dans les contraires A