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
husband hatred inspire
When tempted to be unfaithful, the intellectual woman will try to inspire her husband with indifference, the sentimental woman with hatred, and the passionate woman with disgust.
husband wife lovers
No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.
lying overcoming wickedness
It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome.
player men heaven
God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven.
believe world said
Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.
inferiority modesty helping
The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
wife thrones married
A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne.
widows handsome limits
Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.
quality vices failing
How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
special riches gains
Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability.
girl school may
A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.
sorrow mazes adultery
If certain women walk straight into adultery, there are many others who cling to numerous hopes, and commit sin only after wandering through a maze of sorrows.
passion justice victim
Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.
men vanity dupes
A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.