Honore de Balzac Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• A mother who is really a mother is never free.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mothers Day, Parenting, Parenthood

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

• The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

  Honore de Balzac

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mom, Mother, Fashion

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.183, The Floating Press

• A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

  Honore de Balzac

  Family, Happiness, Mothers Day

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.185, The Floating Press

• Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mother, Doe, World

• Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mother, Passion, Vices

• A sick man, surrounded by those who love him, nursed by those who wish earnestly that he should live, will recover (all other things being equal), when another patient tended by hirelings will die. Doctors decline to see unconscious magnestism in this phenomenon; for them it is the result of intelligent nursing, of exact obedience to their orders; but many a mother knows the virtue of such ardent projections of strong, unceasing prayer.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mother, Strong, Prayer

• A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mother, Drama, Long

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

• Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

  Honore de Balzac

  Mother, Brother, Kings

• In a husband, there is only a man; in a married woman, there is a man, a father, a mother and a woman.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mother, Husband, Father

  "Analytical Studies".

• It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mother, Strong, Exercise

• To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely.

  Honore de Balzac

  Marriage, Mother, Country

• Le coeur d'une me' re est un ab|"me au fond duquel se trouve toujours un pardon. A mother'sheart isanabyss atthebottomof whichthere is always forgiveness.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mother, Pardon

• 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

• A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the fig leaf our Mother Eve bequeathed to her.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mother, Loss, Hands

• Your women of fashion ceases to be a woman. She is neither mother, nor wife, nor lover. She is, medically speaking, sex on the brain.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mother, Fashion, Sex

• Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at a wedding and men smile.

  Honore de Balzac

  Girl, Mother, Men

• The future of a nation lies in the hands of mothers.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mother, Lying, Hands

• Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theologic virtues of marriage.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mother, Love Is, Self

• 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

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