Honore de Balzac Quotes
Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide.
Balzac, Honoré de. The Physiology of Marriage. Translated by George Burnham Ives, George Barrie & Son, 1904, p. 248.
When Moynihan was U. S. Chief Delegate he was chided by the Soviet delegate to "take care" for his strong rhetoric lest he offend other nations.
This was a clever take-off on the famous Marx quotation {584427}
At the time in Britain, women who gave birth to out-of-wedlock children were not only disgraced, but also disciminated agains them in almost every phase of life. Poor single women would be fired by their employers even if it was the employer who had impregnated her. Few would hire a woman who had given birth to a bastard child. As a resukt of this terrible pressure on women, many would murder their own new-born child, and others would "leave it to others".
Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.
