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
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...
lying judging literature
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
love life heart
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
love men sea
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
mothers-day parenting parenthood
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
spiritual flower intuition
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
art eye hands
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
love chivalry motto
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.