Honore De Balzac Quotes 2
| Name | Birthday | Death Date | Nationality | father | Mother | Profession | Famous For |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Honore de Balzac | 20 May 1799 | 18 August 1850 | French | Bernard-François Balssa | Anne-Charlotte-Laure Sallambier | Novelist, Playwright | A novelist, he was one of the most productive and creative writers of the nineteenth century from France. His deep observation of human life and behavior reflected in his complex characters and situations which came together from diverse backgrounds in a single story. |
A list of popular Honore De Balzac quotes are given below.
"Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love." - Honore de Balzac
"Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love." - Honore de Balzac
"Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?" - Honore de Balzac
"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
"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
"Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!" - Honore de Balzac
"It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time." - 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
"Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine." - Honore de Balzac
"For a woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea." - Honore de Balzac
"Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other." - Honore de Balzac
"A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love." - Honore de Balzac
"Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love." - Honore de Balzac
"If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down." - Honore de Balzac
"Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring." - Honore de Balzac
"Love is the most melodious of all harmonies and the sentiment of love is innate. Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it." - Honore de Balzac
"Happy?" asked Aquilina, with dreadful look, and a smile full of pity and terror. "Ah, you do not know what it is to be condemned to a life of pleasure." - Honore de Balzac