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
art history humanity religion
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
art lying secret
The secret of the nobility and beauty of great ladies lies in the art with which they can shed their veils. In such situations, they become like ancient statues. If they kept the merest scarf on, they would be lewd. Your bourgeois woman will always try to cover her nakedness.
art love-is feelings
L'amour n'est pas seulement un sentiment, il est un art aussi. Love is not only a feeling; it is also an art.
art real lying
Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.
dog art wind
No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game from afar is comparable in speed to the celerity of a salesman when he gets wind a deal, to his skill in tripping up or forestalling a rival, and to the art with which he sniffs out and discovers a possible sale.
art perfection simplicity
The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.
love art simple
Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
art science thoughtful
Thinking is seeing.... Every human science is based on deduction, which is a slow process of seeing by which we work up from the effect to the cause; or, in a wider sense, all poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.
art poetry vision
All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.
art philosophy history
There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.
art passion romance
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
art motherhood self
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
artist literature force
A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
art nature literature
What is art? Nature concentrated.