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
men unexpected caprice
Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man
funny-love first-love love-is
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
loss secret crime
The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.
wedding flower wife
A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
solitude moral resources
We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
love hope passion
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
women mean liberty
The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.
virtue force misfortunes
Le bonheur engloutit nos forces, comme le malheur e teint nos vertus. Happiness engulfs our strength, just as misfortune extinguishes our virtues.
lying worry misery
Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
demand firsts should
Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.
eye tongue mockery
Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.
light diets
Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
humility body modesty
Modesty is the conscience of the body.
heart opportunity winning
The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.