Honore de Balzac Quotes About Mistakes

Quotes about: Mistakes

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

  Honore de Balzac

  Spring, Mistake, Errors

• A husband can commit no greater blunder than to discuss his wife, if she is virtuous, with his mistress; unless it be to mention his mistress, if she is beautiful, to his wife.

  Honore de Balzac

  Beautiful, Husband, Mistake

• In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Mistake, Men

• Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying in stores of knowledge and energy, so that they shall not sink under the weight of responsible posts that recede from them, schemers come and go who are wealthy in words and destitute of ideas, astonish the ignorant, and creep into the confidence of those who have a little knowledge.

  Honore de Balzac

  Success, Mistake, Ambition

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.99, The Floating Press

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