Quotes by Honore de Balzac

Honore de Balzac

[Raphael’s] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it is in ourselves, an interpreter for the communication of ideas and sensations, an exhaustless source of poetic inspiration. Every figure is a world in itself, a portrait of which the original appeared in a sublime vision, in a flood of light, pointed to by an inward voice, laid bare by a divine finger which showed what the sources of expression had been in the whole past life of the subject.

Communication

Inspiration

Past

A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.

Beautiful

Book

Victory

A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers.

Flower

Nature

Toads

A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in defending a common treasure; it is weak when composed of scattered individuals, to whom it matters little whether they obey seven or one, a Russian or a Corsican, so long as each keeps his own plot of land, blind in their wretched egotism, to the fact that the day is coming when this too will be torn from them.

Country

Family

Strong

A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.

Lessons

Looks

Teacher

A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.

Children

Thinking

Women

A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage.

Atheist

Chance

Eye

A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.

Duplicity

Fake People

Flow

A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.

Girl

May

School

A girl’s coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside; a woman’s coquetry is endless, she shrouds herself in veil after veil, she satisfies every demand of man’s vanity, the novice responds but to one.

Girl

Thinking

Women

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Able

Abstract

Accepting

Action

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Actors

Add

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Advantage

Adversity

Advice

Affair

Affection

Age

Ambition

Angel

Anger

Animal

Anniversary

Answers

Anti Bullying

Anticipation

Anxious

Army

Art

Artist

Asking

Assuming

Atheism

Atheist

Audacity

Avarice

Avarice Greed

Aversion

Back Home

Bad Ass

Bad Grades

Badass

Bakers

Balls

Bears

Beautiful

Beauty

Bed

Behinds

Being Alone

Being Yourself

Believe

Benevolence

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Quotes by Honore de Balzac

Honore de Balzac

A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.

A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers.

A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.

A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.

A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage.

A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.

A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.

A girl’s coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside; a woman’s coquetry is endless, she shrouds herself in veil after veil, she satisfies every demand of man’s vanity, the novice responds but to one.

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