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
atheist atheism
A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion.
light shining noble
Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden glow, even as the glory of a noble love shines like a sort of light from a woman's face.
love love-is harmony
Love is the most melodious of all harmonies.
motherhood mood save-nature
What is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood?
heart white-hair age
White hair often covers the head, but the heart that holds it is ever young.
art poetry vision
All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.
poverty cease avarice
Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
women keyboards study
Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
women passion europe
Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies in the apathetic indolence with which they commit or suffer good and evil.
women believe passion
By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves their interest and their passions.
children women thinking
A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.
mother strong exercise
It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.
kings husband wife
An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.
couple husband wife
Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes.