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
crush shy persons
Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?
art perfection simplicity
The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.
catholic sublime church
Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a woman sublime.
sacrifice men instinct
By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct.
suicide resignation
Resignation is a daily suicide.
pity charm sweetest
Pity is woman's sweetest charm.
dark light people
For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.
people bed accepting
In family life people almost always adjust themselves to misfortune. They make a bed of it and hope makes them accept that bed, however hard it is.
self self-love turns
The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them.
voice soul desert
Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.
wine misfortunes
Nothing is as heady as the wine of misfortune.
money feelings age
Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.
money gold add
To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold.
gone today nobility
Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.