Honore de Balzac Quotes

When people meet my wife they think better of me. They say: "With a wife like that, he can't be as bad as we thought".

I think it's very hard to shake what people first think of you straightaway.

When I lived in England my perception of what people thought of me was largely formed by the media.

My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.

I think people can be quick to judge. The people that know me, they know what I am like.

Maybe it's shallow of me to have a wife that's so beautiful, but it makes things easier. To me she's the most beautiful woman in the world.

I don't care what the New York Times says about me, and no one I care about cares what the New York Times says about me.

Each [of my wives] was jealous and resentful of my preoccupation with business. Yet none showed any visible aversion to sharing in the proceeds.

The world sees only the reflection of merit; therefore when you come to know a really great man intimately, you may as often find him above as below his reputation.

It would take a hell of a wife to beat no wife at all.

Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.

The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.

Divorce also entails the beginning of a supposition that that familial reality might have obstructed one's ability to perceive others.

Is it not so that a son what is bad to his mother is bad to his wife?

Every single day in a marriage, we influence each other. It is a matter of am I going to have a positive influence or a negative influence?

Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.

Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.

One wife is too much for most husbands to bear, But two at a time there's no mortal can bear.

A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him.

A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.

Dad somewhat enjoyed being called gay. He said it made women want to prove the assertion wrong.

You can always tell how a man will treat his wife by the way he treats his mother.

I've always found it much more dangerous to fool with a man's mistress than his wife.

No married man's ever made up his mind until he's heard what his wife has got to say about it.

Either a good or a bad reputation outruns and gets before people wherever they go.