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
inspirational good-morning marriage
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
math numbers intellectual
Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.
suicide terrible
There is something great and terrible about suicide.
mom mother fashion
It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.
girl suffering pleasure
Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!
love kissing thinking
I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
spring years enemy
If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.
men literature poor
A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
bad-ass events architecture
The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.
life happiness courage
All happiness depends on courage and work.
passion dumb deaf
Passion is born deaf and dumb.
writing ink slave
I am a galley slave to pen and ink.
bread worship god-love
For the person who loves God, worship is the daily bread of patience.
exaggeration-is literature bad-grades
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.