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.
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.
passion dumb deaf
Passion is born deaf and dumb.
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.
paris gondolas doe
Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?]