Honore de
Honore de
inspirational spurs genius
Necessity is often the spur to genius.
suicide moral dressings
Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide.
stitches thread draws
From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.
outcomes events individual
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
generosity poor generous
As a rule, only the poor are generous.
like-love hatred trifles
Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles.
husband betrayal want
When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.
heart white-hair age
White hair often covers the head, but the heart that holds it is ever young.
poverty cease avarice
Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
women keyboards study
Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
women advice chivalry
My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one.
couple fighting blessing
Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest of all undertakings to swear eternal love; the fight at once commences and victory, that is to say liberty, remains in the hands of the cleverer of the two.
powerful sin repentance
Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.
heart pride wife
She who is really a wife, one in heart, flesh, and bone, must follow wherever he leads, in whom her life, her strength, her pride, and happiness are centered.