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
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.
writing color political
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
gratitude heart men
Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
ignorance moments moments-of-happiness
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance
love men play
It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
inspirational inspiring confidence
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
jewels literature pearls
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
moving fall coffee
Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink...