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
pounds timidity
An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.
passion justice victim
Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.
self self-love turns
The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them.
self resignation unfortunate
By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate.
catholic sublime church
Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a woman sublime.
dream home gentleman
Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not dream of inviting to their homes.
society pity victim
No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.
ocean society levels
Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.
summer spring flower
The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in spring, all its flowers in summer, and all its fruits in autumn.
two balls gowns
Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly.
half virtue
Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
world knows
He who best knows the world will love it least.
mind mouths may
Only when one has learned to acknowledge that wiser minds have made better words to come out of our mouths may we truly, then, begin to speak them.
ideas justice brain
Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist.