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| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 5386 |
| QUOTATION: | To have one’s mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850), French novelist. Meditation Number XII, Canel (1829). Balzac’s generalizations about mothers-in-law. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Balzac Collection. |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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