English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:
Honore de Balzac Quotes

Honore de Balzac quotes

French Novelist May 20, 1799 – August 18, 1850

Cite this Page: Citation

Quotes

Honore de Balzac quote: "Reading brings us unknown friends"
Reading brings us unknown friends 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: "With monuments as with men, position means everything."
With monuments as with men, position means everything. Honore de Balzac
But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite. Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac quote: "A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or..."
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning. Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac quote: "A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of..."
A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought. Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac quote: "You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as..."
You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil. Honore de Balzac
This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of the battlefield, and the battle takes place. Things remembered arrive at full gallop, ensuing to the wind. The light cavalry of comparisons deliver a magnificent deploying charge, the artillery of logic hurry up with their train and ammunition, the shafts of with start up like sharpshooters. Similes arise, the paper is covered with ink; for the... Honore de Balzac
I’d need rest to refresh my brain, and to get rest it’s necessary to travel, and to travel one must have money, and in order to get money you have to work. . . . I am in a vicious circle . . .from which it is impossible to escape. Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac quote: "Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have..."
Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother! Honore de Balzac
Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me,--she is like a heavenly angel forgiving the strange incomprehensible sins of earth. Honore de Balzac
Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling. Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac quote: "At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be..."
At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman. 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
Honore de Balzac quote: "The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which..."
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. Honore de Balzac

Popular Author

Related Authors