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
evil cures quacks
Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen.
stupid people heaven
Heaven should be kind to stupid people, for no one else can be consistently.
heart pride men
Is there any instinct more deeply implanted in the heart of man than the pride of protection, a protection which is constantly exerted for a fragile and defenceless creature?
civilization ignorant would-be
If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.
heart hatred may
The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.
beautiful horse sight
It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
perfect literature mazes
Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
sea lines latitude-and-longitude
No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.
heart inferiority rivals
No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival.
happiness revenge world
The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.
uncles niece palaces
When she lives at his palace, the maiden niece of a bishop can pass for a respectable woman because, if she has a love affair, she is obliged to hoodwink her uncle.
honest praise said
Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.
france injury remedy
In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.
feelings natural natural-feelings
Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them.