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
eye starlight virgins
Ah! the soft starlight of virgin eyes.
compassion littles criminals
Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.
impossible virtue
What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible.
uncles niece palaces
When she lives at his palace, the maiden niece of a bishop can pass for a respectable woman because, if she has a love affair, she is obliged to hoodwink her uncle.
two kind poet
There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier.
journey poetry painful
Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
poetry sorrow radiance
It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.
answers pleasure greater
Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.
paris pretty-woman whim
Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness.
blow wind mobility
Poles offer a mobility like that of the wind that blows over the immense plains and marches of Poland. Show a Pole a precipice, and he will leap headlong over it.
france injury remedy
In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.
writing style thieves
Modern reformers offer nebulous theories or write philanthropic novels. But your thief acts! He is as clear as a fact and as logical as a punch on the nose! And what a style he has!
powerful government order
What patient can trust the knowledge of a physician without reputation or furniture, in a period when publicity is all-powerful and when the government gilds the lamp posts on the Place de la Concorde in order to dazzle the poor?
two males female
Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.