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 poet
Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?
journey poetry painful
Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
poetry sorrow radiance
It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.
happiness marriage couple
Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret.
lovers break scoundrels
Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word.
past icy snuff
Many of us marvel at the icy insensitivity with which women snuff out their armours. But if they did not blot out the past in this manner, life for them would lose all dignity and they could never resist the fatal familiarities to which they once submitted.
society genesis indulgence
Society is no more indulgent than was the God of Genesis.
heart gloves doe
Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
men action providence
Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.
drunk height salesman
To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.
ignorance men may
Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.
beautiful husband mistake
A husband can commit no greater blunder than to discuss his wife, if she is virtuous, with his mistress; unless it be to mention his mistress, if she is beautiful, to his wife.
heart pride men
A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and awakens the most magnificent feelings in his heart.
hate like-love hatred
Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.