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
clothes veils gloss
Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects.
role-models envy emulation
Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.
suffering doubt doe
A lui la foi, a' elle le doute, a' elle le fardeau le plus lourd: la femme ne souffre-t-elle pas toujours pour deux? For him, faith; for her, doubt and for her theheavier load: does not the woman always suffer for both?
monsters habit combat
Le mariage doit incessamment combattre un monstre qui de v ore tout: l'habitude. Marriage should always combat the monster that devours everything: habit.
thrones married slave
La femme marie e est un esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un tro" n e. A married woman is a slave whom one must put on a throne.
feelings sentiments
Nos beaux sentiments ne sont-ils pas les poe sies de la volonte ? Aren't our best feelings poetry of the will?
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.
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.
yield envy return
How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?
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.
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.