Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
Honore de BalzacVirginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability.
Honore de BalzacBy and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves their interest and their passions.
Honore de BalzacIn Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted.
Honore de Balzac