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.
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.
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.
parent victory defeat
The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
gymnastics mind body
The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.
couple husband wife
Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes.
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.
couple fighting blessing
Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest of all undertakings to swear eternal love; the fight at once commences and victory, that is to say liberty, remains in the hands of the cleverer of the two.
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.