Quotes by Honore de Balzac

About Honore de Balzac:

Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled La Comédie Humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 Fall of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Um grande amor é um crédito aberto a uma potência tão voraz, que o momento da falência chega sempre.

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Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

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All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

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What is art? Nature concentrated.

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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

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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 t...

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Retrouver Paris! savez-vous ce que c'est, ô Parisiens?

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Doing his utmost, deploying all his energy, a young man setting out from zero can wind up after ten years somewhere below where he started.

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Man cannot spend all his time doing evil, and even in the company of pirates there must be some sweet moments on their sinister ship when you feel as if you were aboard a pleasure yacht.

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There's nothing so fearsome as the revolt of a sheep," said de Marsay.

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No one was irritable; we have never known anyone to remain unhappy while digesting a good meal. We enjoy lingering in a becalmed state, a kind of midpoint between the reverie of a thinker and the contentment of a cud-chewing animal, a state that shou...

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Notre conscience est un juge infaillible, quand nous ne l'avons pas encore assassinée.

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Il existe je ne sais quoi de grand et d’épouvantable dans le suicide. Les chutes d’une multitude de gens sont sans danger, comme celles des enfants qui tombent de trop bas pour se blesser; mais quand un grand homme se brise, il doit venir de bie...

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For avarice begins where poverty ends.

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A ignorância é a mãe de todos os crimes, porque um crime é, antes de mais, uma falta de raciocínio.

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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 e...

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Happiness is the inner poetry of women, just as fine clothes are the mask of beauty

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Author Bio

  • NameHonore de Balzac
  • DescriptionFrench writer
  • AliasesBalzac
  • BornMay 20, 1799
  • DiedAugust 19, 1850
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionPlaywright; Journalist; Literary Critic; Novelist; Printer