"When women love us, they forgive us..." - Quote by Honore De Balzac

“The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.”

“Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.”

“To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.”

“One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.”

“A friend is someone who knows you and loves you for what you were and who you are, and who also shares your hopes and dreams for who you can become.”

“People don't love each other at our age, Marthe—they please each other, that's all. Later on, when you're old and impotent, you can love someone. At our age, you just think you do. That's all it is.”

“You know what a woman's curiosity is.”

“If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.”

“Women know not the whole of their coquetry.”