Honoré de Balzac was a French author of stories as well as narratives. He is the primary agent of the very first fantastic generation of French authors like. Victor Hugo, Prosper Mérimée, Alexandre Dumas the and also George Sand.
After a couple of fell short organization adventure he tossed himself with great energy into the literature, and blogged about 80 books from 1830 up until his fatality in 1850. Most of Balzac's stories are part of the bigger unique suite from 1842, which he called "La Comédie Humaine" (The Human Comedy), the title was inspired by Dante's The Divine Comedy. This terrific unique series, where a network of more than 2000 individuals are acting in a number of publications, was divided into subseries as "Scenes from Parisian Life" and "Scenes from the life of the province." The grasp to allow individuals act in several publications, he began to make use of from the Father Goriot (1835), considered as his magnum opus.
Balzac's composing design was ingenious for its time and also he is thought about one of the pioneers of realism in literature. He is likewise known for his facility and also well-drawn personalities, and his works commonly check out the themes of ambition, greed, and also power.
Balzac's literary credibility has actually remained to expand because his death, as well as his jobs are widely read as well as researched worldwide. He is thought about among the best novelists of all time and is frequently compared to other fantastic authors such as Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, and Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Our collection contains 84 quotes who is written / told by Honore, under the main topics: Love - Parenting - Equality - Mom - Legal.
"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"
"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught"
"Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane"
"An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence"
"A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity"
"All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual"
"A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over"
"A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea"
"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 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 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"
"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"
"Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
