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
heart pride wife
She who is really a wife, one in heart, flesh, and bone, must follow wherever he leads, in whom her life, her strength, her pride, and happiness are centered.
people matter france
Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones.
people cracks matter
In France everything is a matter for jest. People make quips about the scaffold, about Napoleon's defeat on the banks of The Beresina, and about the barricades of our revolutions. So, at the assizes of the Last Judgment, there will always be a Frenchmen to crack a joke.
truth real war
There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
husband betrayal want
When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.
husband sentimental deceit
A woman's sentimental monkeyshines will always deceive her lover, who invariably waxes ecstatic where her husband necessarily shrugs his shoulders.
eccentricity
Even beauty cannot always palliate eccentricity.
men animal gluttony
The glutton is much more than an animal and much less than a man.
audacity vices innocence
Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.
men thinking law
Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law. They all wear black, too, for are they not in mourning for every virtue and every illusion?
marriage men feelings
Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
simple men secret
As soon as man seeks to penetrate the secrets of Nature--in which nothing is secret and it is but a question of seeing--he realizes that the simple produces the supernatural.
moving secret affair
Generally our confidences move downward rather than upward; in our secret affairs, we employ our inferiors much more than our bettors.
grateful men secret
With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to an honest man he has been unable to swindle.