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
art eye hands
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
temptation cures
There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
inspirational men law
To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
jewels literature pearls
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
looks sometimes moments
Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.'
lonely loneliness being-alone
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
equality power literature
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
liberty libertarian giants
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
being-yourself work love-yourself
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
law feet literature
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
writing color political
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
ignorance moments moments-of-happiness
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance
paris doe good-french
Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.
heart opportunity winning
The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.