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
women wife rooms
The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
communication inspiration past
[Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it is in ourselves, an interpreter for the communication of ideas and sensations, an exhaustless source of poetic inspiration. Every figure is a world in itself, a portrait of which the original appeared in a sublime vision, in a flood of light, pointed to by an inward voice, laid bare by a divine finger which showed what the sources of expression had been in the whole past life of the subject.
heart climbing hatred
Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
marriage husband fun
Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.
marriage vexation virtue
A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.
history principles events
There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.
believe i-believe i-believe-in
I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.
wretched
We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.
funny dog house
When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.
marriage husband thinking
The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical.
journalism journalist
For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth.
passion ends great-passion
They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.
circles problem reason
Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians, and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring a circle.
feelings
Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will.