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
funny nature stupid
Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
stupid world bed
They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse on who thought of them.
stupid people heaven
Heaven should be kind to stupid people, for no one else can be consistently.
jealousy stupid envy
Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.
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.
two stupidity assuming
Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.
men stupidity feelings
Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.
beauty falling-in-love stupid
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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.
envy mediocrity pity
There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.
yield envy return
How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?