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
beauty falling-in-love stupid
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
art history humanity religion
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
teacher looks lessons
A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
inspirational willpower talent
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
time compounds humans
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
gratitude heart men
Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
spiritual flower intuition
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
suicide wall writing
If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.
temptation cures
There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
jewels literature pearls
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
lonely loneliness being-alone
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
being-yourself work love-yourself
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
running husband thinking
A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
humility body modesty
Modesty is the conscience of the body.