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Honore de Balzac Quotes

Honore de Balzac quotes

French Novelist May 20, 1799 – August 18, 1850

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Honore de Balzac quote: "Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history,..."
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac quote: "Finance, like time, devours its own children."
Finance, like time, devours its own children. Honore de Balzac
Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window. Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac quote: "Passion is univeral humanity. Without it religion history ..."
Passion is univeral humanity. Without it religion history art and romance would be useless. Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac quote: "All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history,..."
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac quote: "Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with..."
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself. Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac quote: "One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul."
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. Honore de Balzac
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. Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac quote: "A mother who is really a mother is never free."
A mother who is really a mother is never free. Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac quote: "Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself..."
Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood! 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
In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one wrenches off your horse's shoes, another steals your whip, and the least treacherous of them all is the man whom you see coming to fire his pistol at you point blank. Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac quote: "A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself..."
A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way. Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac quote: "Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours..."
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine. Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac quote: "I believe in the incomprehensibility of God."
I believe in the incomprehensibility of God. Honore de Balzac

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