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Honoré de Balzac authored 19th-century novels and plays. After the fall of Napoléon I Bonaparte in 1815, his magnum opus, a sequence of almost a hundred novels and plays, entitled, presents life in the years. Due to keen observation of fine detail and unfiltered representation, European literature regards Balzac.
Honore de Balzac. Dream, Book, Writing. Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. Honore de Balzac. Writing, Color, Political. As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered.
Honoré de Balzac. Science is the language of the Temporal world, Love is that of the Spiritual world. Thus man takes note of more than he is able to explain, while the Angelic Spirit sees and comprehends. Science depresses man; Love exalts the Angel. Science is still seeking, Love has found. Man judges Nature according to his own relations to ...
Essay by Honore de Balzac (1834), published in "Oeuvres completes de H. de Balzac" ("Complete works of Balzac") published by A. Houssiaux (Part II, pp. 111-235), translated by Ellen Marriage, 1855. All human power is a compound of time and patience.
Honoré de Balzac. Conjugal Love should never put on or take off his bandage but at an opportune time. Honoré de Balzac. Man is imperfect. He is at some times more or less hypocritical than at others, and then simpletons say that his morality is high or low. Honoré de Balzac. It is easier to be a lover than a husband, for the same reason that ...
Finance, like time, devours its own children. Honore de Balzac. Time, Money, Children. Honore de Balzac (2014). “The Firm of Nucingen”, p.19, The Floating Press. To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. Honore de Balzac. Funny, Money, Tired.
Unsourced Quotes by Honoré de Balzac. 1. Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves! 2. The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. 3. A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning. 4.
