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
clouds veils
Clouds signify the veil of the Most High.
struggle men long
We have long struggles with ourself, of which the outcome is one of our actions; they are, as it were, the inner side of human nature. This inner side is God's; the outer side belongs to men.
real splendor
The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us.
betrayal eye men
A woman questions the man who loves exactly as a judge questions a criminal. This being so, a flash of the eye, a mere word, an inflection of the voice or a moment's hesitation suffice to expose the fact, betrayal or crime he is attempting to conceal.
atheism thanks century
Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture.
dream inspire misfortunes
Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream.
never-quit gowns priests
Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns.
dupes emotion victim
Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
source enjoyment
We are scarcely apt to berate the source of enjoyment.
yield envy return
How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?
envy mediocrity pity
There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.
intimate evasion unworthy
Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.
passion greed gold
The prodigality of millionaires is comparable only to their greed of gain. Let some whim or passion seize them and money is of no account. In fact these Croesuses find whims and passions harder to come by than gold.
idols want proud
All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.