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
life giving doubt
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
love inspiring positivity
The more one judges, the less one loves.
men trying want-him
Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
destiny maids bent
Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
inspirational motivational helping-others
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
laughter joining-in joining
To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.
keys discovery asking
The key to all sciences is unquestionably the question mark. To the word How? we owe most of our greatest discoveries. Wisdom in life may perhaps consist in asking ourselves on all occasions: Why?
painting deals huge
In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it.
hours whole-life one-hour
One hour of love has a whole life in it.
ideas action contemplation
I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.
sunshine glory
Glory is the sunshine of the dead
outcomes events individual
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
outcomes events individual
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.