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
stupid world bed
They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse on who thought of them.
smile motherhood tears
Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears.
husband hate found-happiness
A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other.
spurs genius
Necessity is the spur of genius.
husband exit lovers
One exits with one's husband -- one lives with one's lover.
love-is way height
Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights.
gymnastics mind body
The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.
good-person enough shows
It's not enough to be a good person. You also have to show it.
people society climbs
People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply.
ocean society levels
Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.
summer spring flower
The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in spring, all its flowers in summer, and all its fruits in autumn.
solitude answers pleasure
We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer, and to whom we can say, from time to time, that solitude is a fine thing.
space soul wells
Our souls possess the unknown power of extending as well as contracting space.
two balls gowns
Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly.