Honore De Balzac Quotes, Drunk Quotes, Height Quotes

To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Drunk Quotes , Height Quotes

All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Energy Quotes , Illusion Quotes

During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Simplicity Quotes , Storm Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Christian Quotes , Men Quotes

People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , People Quotes , Unhappiness Quotes

Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Marriage Quotes , Party Quotes

Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Crush Quotes , Shy Quotes

The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child. It involves the same efforts, the same impurities, the same laceration, and the same triumph.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Children Quotes , Effort Quotes

We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Book Quotes , Law Quotes

Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Feel Good Quotes , Feelings Quotes

Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and in Paris bears very different fruit, but is none the less virtue.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Ideas Quotes , Paris Quotes

Necessity is often the spur to genius.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Spurs Quotes

They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse on who thought of them.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Stupid Quotes , Bed Quotes

Many of us marvel at the icy insensitivity with which women snuff out their armours. But if they did not blot out the past in this manner, life for them would lose all dignity and they could never resist the fatal familiarities to which they once submitted.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Past Quotes , Icy Quotes

Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Love Quotes , Men Quotes

The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Country Quotes , Paris Quotes

A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may be penitent and amend; but a spy is always a spy, night and day, in bed, at table, as he walks abroad; his vileness pervades every moment of his life

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Night Quotes , Mad Quotes

The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Art Quotes , Perfection Quotes

Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Like Love Quotes , Hatred Quotes

You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Girl Quotes , Men Quotes