Honore de Balzac Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.

  Honore de Balzac

  Daughter, Children, Ambition

• Finance, like time, devours its own children.

  Honore de Balzac

  Time, Money, Children

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “The Firm of Nucingen”, p.19, The Floating Press

• Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

  Honore de Balzac

  Children, Literature, Sovereign

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.172, The Floating Press

• Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

  Honore de Balzac

  Children, Loss, Her Beauty

  "Letters of Two Brides". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1842.

• In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

  Honore de Balzac

  Family, Children, Judging

• How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch-cow.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mother, Children, Thoughtful

• A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.

  Honore de Balzac

  Children, Women, Thinking

• Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him.

  Honore de Balzac

  Girl, Education, Children

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac”, p.10, 谷月社

• What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

  Honore de Balzac

  Children, Two, Fruit

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac”, p.70, 谷月社

• A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings.

  Honore de Balzac

  Education, Children, Stupid

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.207, The Floating Press

• Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an alliance with virtue, that a woman never shows to full advantage except as a mother. Then alone can her character expand in the fulfillment of all life's duties and the enjoyment of all its pleasures.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mother, Children, Character

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.186, The Floating Press

• The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child. It involves the same efforts, the same impurities, the same laceration, and the same triumph.

  Honore de Balzac

  Children, Effort, Majestic

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