Honore de Balzac Quotes

I don't think a powerful man would be interesting unless he'd be nice, attractive, with or without the power. Men are interested in powerful men. Women are interested in terrific men!

You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.

Young men preen. Old men scheme.

When I look around the world, I don't see too many damsels in distress. If they're a damsel in distress, they're manipulating some guy to help them.

All the girls in Australia are hot.

In 'Drama,' I play a flirtatious girl who uses her femininity to get things done.

Dear to the heart of a girl is her own beauty and charm.

Charm is to a woman what perfume is to a flower.

She lowered her lashes until they almost cuddled her cheeks and slowly raised them again, like a theatre curtain. I was to get to know that trick. That was supposed to make me roll over on my back with all four paws in the air.

Women," Mat declared as he rode Pips down the dusty, little-used road, "are like mules." He frowned. "Wait. No. Goats. Women are like goats. Except every flaming one thinks she's a horse instead, and a prize racing mare to boot. Do you understand me, Talmanes?" "Pure poetry, Mat," Talmanes said, tamping the tabac down into his pipe.

You West Virginia girls are one tough breed," he said. You got that right," I told him.

She whom smiles and tears make equally lovely may command all hearts.

There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure.

Glamour is when a man knows a woman is a woman.

Femininity is a lot of power. It's allure. And the moment you start competing directly with a man, it's not that fun.

I'm kind of like a guy who's missing a little bit of the guy gene. Like, I love steak, but the notion of golfing is the last thing I would want to do. I love women, but I'm also a mama's boy, and some of my best friends are women. So I'm kinda half guy's guy.

Well, doctor, and do I now act like a 'pink powder puff' ?

The reason that women are so much more sociable than men is because they act more from the heart than the intellect.

Now what I love in women is, they won't Or can't do otherwise than lie, but do it. So well, the very truth seems falsehood to it.

A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her lover. This is all the more true when that woman is young, pretty, and so decollete as to emerge from the neck of her gown in the costume of Eve.

Purity of heart is love for the weak who constantly fall.

The plight of the actor, even if he's a star, is the plight of the women's movement. They're saying the same thing to us: get into bed, give me a good time, then give me something to eat, go get the laundry, be a good girl.

It's terrible when the weak are also cruel for then we are defenseless against them.

Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.