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
people mind noble
For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.
poverty avarice-greed ends
For avarice begins where poverty ends.
monsters familiarity
A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.
turkeys
When in Turkey, do as the turkeys do.
love-is dupes flattery
True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe's conceit.
Love which economizes is never true love.
giving deals
The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money.
surprise surprise-me
Nothing about me surprises me.
lying men yes-i-can
Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.
husband found-happiness wife
A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.
men iron sheep
Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
angel heart cash
Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts.
parent victory defeat
The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
things-in-life choices hardest-thing-in-life
Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.