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
men rich poor
To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.
ideas justice brain
Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist.
women suffering weakness
Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.
women dresses poetic
Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.
failure remembrance age
Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.
business political secret
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.
power doe force
Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.
jealousy stupid envy
Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.
jealousy heart envy
Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.
loss men choices
Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.
soul sorrow slumber
Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode the soul like that frightful acid which penetrates crystal.
novelty deceptive delightful
Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.
mother husband father
In a husband there is only a man; in a married woman there is a man, a father, and mother, and a woman.
dog reading doe
He's got his dog trained so that it only does it on newspapers. The trouble is it does it when he's reading the blasted things.