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
dream book writing
It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.
writing ink slave
I am a galley slave to pen and ink.
wedding flower wife
A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
marriage wedding literature
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
leadership sports bad-ass
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
suicide terrible
There is something great and terrible about suicide.
funny-love first-love love-is
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
girl suffering pleasure
Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!
literature virtuous-woman virtuous
The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
bad-ass events architecture
The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.
demand firsts should
Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.
inspirational facts impossible
The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred
feel-good feelings mind
Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.
strong creative secret
Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.