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
jewels literature pearls
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
being-yourself work love-yourself
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
lovers break scoundrels
Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word.
fever six eternity
Six weeks with a fever is an eternity.
gymnastics mind body
The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.
exhausted abstract remains
To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
wide
I am not deep, but I am very wide.
never-quit gowns priests
Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns.
inferiority modesty helping
The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.