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Honore de Balzac Quotes

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French Novelist May 20, 1799 – August 18, 1850

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Honore de Balzac quote: "Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane."
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane. Honore de Balzac
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition. Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac quote: "Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance"
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance Honore de Balzac
However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and colors his voice. The stupidest man will often, under the stress of passion, achieve heights of eloquence, in thought if not in language, and seem to move in some luminous sphere. Goriot's voice and gesture had at this moment the power of communication that characterizes the great actor. Are not our finer feelings the poems of the human will? Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac quote: "Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as..."
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. Honore de Balzac
What leads me to accredit the truth of what great Savonati has conveyed to us is the way in which he conscientiously tells us everything. In novels written nowadays, writers pay little heed to their heroes' stomachs. They send them off on errands, embroil them in adventures which leave them as breathless as the reader, and yet they are never hungry. In this respect, they bear little resemblance to the author. In my opinion, this, more than anything else, serves to discredit this type of work.... Honore de Balzac
Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after you have read this story of great misfortunes, you will no doubt dine well, blaming the author for your own insensitivity, accusing him of wild exaggeration and flights of fancy. But rest assured: this tragedy is not a fiction. All is true. Honore de Balzac
He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved. Honore de Balzac
When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich. Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac quote: "A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as..."
A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists. Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac quote: "I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist..."
I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings. Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac quote: "There is no such thing as a great talent without great will..."
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power. Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac quote: "Behind every great fortune lies a great crime."
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime. Honore de Balzac
It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants. Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac quote: "There is something great and terrible about suicide."
There is something great and terrible about suicide. Honore de Balzac

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