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
paris people kitchen
The monotony of provincial life attracts the attention of people to the kitchen. You do not dine as luxuriously in the provinces as in Paris, but you dine better, because the dishes serve you are the result of mediation and study.
generosity people twenties
As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
people magic mind
When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.
grief people shining
Grief ennobles the commonest people because it has its own essential grandeur. To shine with the luster of grief, a person need only be sincere.
judging people crime
What moralist can deny that well-bred and vicious people are much more agreeable than their virtuous counterparts? Having crimes to atone for, they provisionally solicit indulgence by showing leniency toward the defects of their judges. Thus they pass for excellent folk.
fall people rich
When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
fake-people duplicity flow
A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.
people unhappiness unfortunate
People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
people drink pleasure
And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.
people want affair
It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.
dark light people
For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.
people bed accepting
In family life people almost always adjust themselves to misfortune. They make a bed of it and hope makes them accept that bed, however hard it is.
wise strong people
It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers.
people society climbs
People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply.