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
flames fire genius
Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
writing talent particular
When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.
jesus police enemy
The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.
reality imagination details
Imagination helps bring out the realism of every detail and only sees the beauties of the work.
fall heart years
There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.
fashion men fool
The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
loyalty winning victory
Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself.
marriage husband genius
A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
cat wine oil
Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats
true-love men wife
To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
nature giving enchantment
If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving to that word its exact significance.
spiritual heaven silence
All human beings go through a previous life... Who knows how many fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before he can be brought to understand the value of that silence and solitude of spiritual worlds?
may imitation counterfeit
You may imitate, but never counterfeit.
angel men judging
Man judges of nature in relation to itself; the angelic spirit judges of it in relation to heaven. In short, to the spirits everything speaks.