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
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.
running husband thinking
A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
being-yourself work love-yourself
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
equality power literature
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
lonely loneliness being-alone
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
looks sometimes moments
Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.'
paris doe good-french
Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.
race literature finance
I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.