Honore de Balzac Quotes

Quotes about:

• When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

  Honore de Balzac

  Life, Giving, Doubt

  139 Copy quote

• The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Illegal, Profit

  4 Copy quote

• It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

  Honore de Balzac

  Inspirational, Motivational, Helping Others

  146 Copy quote

• How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!

  Honore de Balzac

  Envy, Emotion, Insult

  59 Copy quote

• Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for a Christian, a treasure for a man of parts, and an abyss for a weakling.

  Honore de Balzac

  Christian, Men, Events

  6 Copy quote

• The more one judges, the less one loves.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Inspiring, Positivity

  Honore De Balzac (2005). “The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou”, p.90, Cosimo, Inc.

  116 Copy quote

• There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.

  Honore de Balzac

  Truth, Real, War

  13 Copy quote

• Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance

  Honore de Balzac

  Ignorance, Moments, Moments Of Happiness

  36 Copy quote

• When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army

  Honore de Balzac

  Coffee, Army, Ideas

  18 Copy quote

• Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.

  Honore de Balzac

  Things In Life, Choices, Hardest

  13 Copy quote

• Behind every fortune there is a crime.

  Honore de Balzac

  Crime, Fortune, Behinds

  5 Copy quote

• Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

  Honore de Balzac

  Happiness, Sacrifice, Self Sacrifice

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Old Goriot: Classic French Literature”, p.109, 谷月社

  36 Copy quote

• 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.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Sisterhood, Giving

  88 Copy quote

• Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.

  Honore de Balzac

  Events, Outcomes, Individual

  4 Copy quote

• Temperament is the thermometer of character.

  Honore de Balzac

  Character, Thermometers, Temperament

  17 Copy quote

• Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

  Honore de Balzac

  Equality, Power, Literature

  "La Duchesse de Langeais". 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.

  47 Copy quote

• All human power is a compound of time and patience.

  Honore de Balzac

  Time, Power, Compounds

  Honore de Balzac (2009). “Eugenie Grandet”, p.141, The Floating Press

  23 Copy quote

• Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

  Honore de Balzac

  Liberty, Giants, Libertarian

  51 Copy quote

• Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Sheep, Iron

  Honore de Balzac (2010). “Cousin Bette”, p.293, The Floating Press

  9 Copy quote

• A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.

  Honore de Balzac

  Naked, Skirts, Nudity

  51 Copy quote

• Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mind, Great Minds, Virtue

  10 Copy quote

• Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

  Honore de Balzac

  Novelty, Deceptive, Delightful

  3 Copy quote

• The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.

  Honore de Balzac

  Parent, Victory, Defeat

  10 Copy quote

• Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.

  Honore de Balzac

  Fire, Flames, Genius

  35 Copy quote

• Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Wine, Tea

  102 Copy quote

Page 1 of 27

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin