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
gratitude heart men
Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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.
being-yourself work love-yourself
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
humility body modesty
Modesty is the conscience of the body.
dream book writing
It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.
wedding flower wife
A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
funny-love first-love love-is
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
literature virtuous-woman virtuous
The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
laughter joining-in joining
To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.
exaggeration-is literature bad-grades
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
hatred giants journalism
Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds.
couple passion duration
The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness.
generosity people twenties
As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.