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
family children judging
In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
jealousy fear heart
Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
block believe power
A grass blade believes that men build palaces for it to grow in. Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of marble and it brings them down. This power of feeble life which can creep in anywhere is greater than that of the mighty behind their cannons.
struggle fate intelligent
Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.
wish spirit force
Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?
forgiveness pedestal lovers
No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.
forgiveness forgiving
When women love us they forgive everything.
strong past creative
To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the mysteries of her untiring labors afresh.
envy emotion insult
How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
children effort noble
The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child. It involves the same efforts, the same impurities, the same laceration, and the same triumph.
women order realizing
Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves!
doe delicacy sometimes
Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency.
atheist eye chance
A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage.
desire loyal doe
Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire.