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 may waste
A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
ignorance men may
Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.
may fantasy dusk
What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.
law may humans
Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.
heart hatred may
The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.
mind mouths may
Only when one has learned to acknowledge that wiser minds have made better words to come out of our mouths may we truly, then, begin to speak them.
may imitation counterfeit
You may imitate, but never counterfeit.
girl school may
A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.
pride men may
A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent.
love may immensity
Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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.
suicide wall writing
If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.
simplicity inspire disrespect
Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.