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
children effort noble
The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child. It involves the same efforts, the same impurities, the same laceration, and the same triumph.
family children judging
In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
children two fruit
What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?
children loss literature
Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
children literature sovereign
Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
money children finance
Finance, like time, devours its own children.
daughter children ambition
Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.
girl education children
Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him.
education children stupid
A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings.
mother children character
Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an alliance with virtue, that a woman never shows to full advantage except as a mother. Then alone can her character expand in the fulfillment of all life's duties and the enjoyment of all its pleasures.
children women thinking
A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.
mother children thoughtful
How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch-cow.
art history humanity religion
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
inspirational men law
To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.