Skip to content

Quotes from The Vicar of Tours — Honoré de Balzac

1799–1850 France

← All quotes by Honoré de Balzac

4 quotes

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.

The Vicar of Tours (1832)

Between persons who are perpetually in each other's company dislike or love increases daily; every moment brings reasons to love or hate each other more and more.

The Vicar of Tours (1832)

Persons without minds are like weeds that delight in good earth; they want to be amused by others, all the more because they are dull within.

The Vicar of Tours (1832)

Old maids who have never yielded in their habits of life or in their characters to other lives and other characters, as the fate of woman exacts, have, as a general thing, a mania for making others give way to them.

The Vicar of Tours (1832)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Honoré de Balzac (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.