Honore de Balzac Quotes

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.

Men tend to feel threatened; women tend to feel guilty.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Interestingly, one thing I've found that neither women nor men give up on is the idea of men as protectors. Even in cases where the woman is earning more, they'll often tell me that if there were a fire or something, they would expect the man to be the one to protect them.

Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

I've always maintained that men were more romantic than women.

I think women get labeled a lot as being crazy. But I think men make us crazy.

Why can't ladies like nice guys?

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

There's always something funny about men chasing women.

There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

Most women are wise to the fact that lots of men love a cat-fight, and thus go out of their way not to give them one.

Most women don't like good men. They say they want a good buy, but most women always wind up with the bad boy.

In the battle between the sexes, men and women will go practically to the end of the earth in illogical, irrational ways to give each other pain.

I don't believe for a minute that women really want to be understood by men.

'Little Women' has interesting gender connotations. There are generations of women who love the book. But there are a lot of men who think it's sentimental, gooey stuff.

The irony is that the more unapologetically sexist men are in movies, the more women tend to be attracted to them in person.

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.

I've never had a dislike for men. I've been badly treated by some. But I've been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason.

"War gives men a plain-and-simple something to do ... Women write diaries in the hope that their words will beckon fate." It's a romantic manifesto.

The more successful you are as a man, the more you're liked. And the more successful you are as a woman, the more you're disliked.