Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac
Honoré de Balzacbal.zak], born Honoré Balzac, 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) 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...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth20 May 1799
CountryFrance
Honore de Balzac quotes about
stitches thread draws
From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.
generosity poor generous
As a rule, only the poor are generous.
like-love hatred trifles
Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles.
husband betrayal want
When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.
poverty cease avarice
Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
couple fighting blessing
Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest of all undertakings to swear eternal love; the fight at once commences and victory, that is to say liberty, remains in the hands of the cleverer of the two.
inferiority modesty helping
The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
eccentricity
Even beauty cannot always palliate eccentricity.
audacity vices innocence
Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.
simple men secret
As soon as man seeks to penetrate the secrets of Nature--in which nothing is secret and it is but a question of seeing--he realizes that the simple produces the supernatural.
strong queens prayer
White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion and of the lamb, Prayer! Prayer will give you the key of heaven! Bold and pure as innocence, strong, like all that is single and simple, this glorious, invincible Queen rests, nevertheless, on the material world; she takes possession of it; like the sun, she clasps it in a circle of light.