Facts about Honore de Balzac 
Summary
Honore de Balzac was a famous Novelist from France, who lived between May 20, 1799 and August 18, 1850. He became 51 years old.
Biography
Honoré de Balzac was a French writer of novels and short stories. He is the main representative of the first great generation of French novelists like. Victor Hugo, Prosper Mérimée, Alexandre Dumas the and George Sand.
After a few failed business adventure he threw himself with great energy into the literature, and wrote about 80 books from 1830 until his death in 1850. Many of Balzac's stories are part of the larger novel suite from 1842, which he called La Comedie of Humaine (The Human Comedy), the title was inspired by Dante's The Divine Comedy. This great novel series, where a network of more than 2000 persons are acting in several books, was divided into subseries as "Scenes from Parisian Life" and "Scenes from the life of the province." The grip to let people act in several books, he began to use from the Father Goriot (1835), regarded as his magnum opus. Zodiac etc.
He is born under the zodiac taurus, who is known for Security, Subtle strength, Appreciation, Instruction, Patience.
Our collection contains 84 quotes who is written / told by Honore, under the main topics: Love, Equality, Legal, Mom, Parenting.
Related authors: Alexandre Dumas, George Sand, Victor Hugo
Source / external links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honore_de_Balzac
Famous quotes by Honore de Balzac (84)
"A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea"
"A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories"
"A mother who is really a mother is never free"
"A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over"
"What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?"
"The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other"
"The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman"
"The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin"
"The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital"
"Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other"
"Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society"
"The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human"
"The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance"
"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris"
"No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman"
"In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls"
"The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute"
"Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity"
"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart"
"Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them"
"If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye"
"When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa"
"Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin"
"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"
"When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich"
"To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure"
"Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys"
"Those who spend too fast never grow rich"
"There is something great and terrible about suicide"
"There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power"
"There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile"
"The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition"
"The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one"
"The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste"
"The more one judges, the less one loves"
"Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?"
"Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings"
"Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine"
"Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue"
"Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart"
"Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true"
"Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established"
"Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!"
"Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless"
"Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!"
"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"
"Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation"
"Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite"
"Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better"
"Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity"
"Love is the poetry of the senses"
"Love is a game in which one always cheats"
"Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside"
"It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft"
"Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane"
"For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth"
"First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time"
"Finance, like time, devours its own children"
"Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow"
"Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling"
"Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness"
"Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it"
"Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God"
"Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty"
"Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing"
"But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite"
"Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies"
"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"
"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime"
"Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love"
"Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love"
"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues"
"At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman"
"An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence"
"All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual"
"A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears"
"A man is a poor creature compared to a woman"
"A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way"
"A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed"
"A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists"
"A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning"
"A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity"
"Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact"
"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught"
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