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
desire loyal doe
Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire.
doe delicacy sometimes
Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency.
heart gloves doe
Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
men self doe
When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.
men done doe
Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.
paris gondolas doe
Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?]
power doe force
Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.
dog reading doe
He's got his dog trained so that it only does it on newspapers. The trouble is it does it when he's reading the blasted things.
happiness soul doe
But does not happiness come from the soul within?
doe martyr great-writers
A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
suffering doubt doe
A lui la foi, a' elle le doute, a' elle le fardeau le plus lourd: la femme ne souffre-t-elle pas toujours pour deux? For him, faith; for her, doubt and for her theheavier load: does not the woman always suffer for both?
nature doe deceiving
The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes.
paris doe good-french
Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.
art history humanity religion
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.