Honore de Balzac Quotes

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.

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• My hair and make-up secret is 'the messier the better.'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Up
  • Hair
  • Better

• Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • Literature
  • Secret
  • Western

• The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • Secret
  • Planning
  • German

• Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Books
  • Forgotten
  • Remembered

• Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Dead
  • Forgotten
  • Audiences

• My secret with kale is to add lots of sweet or sharp flavours to offset some of that grassy intensity.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Sweet
  • Secret
  • Offset

• Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Die
  • Secret
  • Recipe

• Carlos was a character, a character fabricated by Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, fabricated by the secret services of the epoch, fabricated by the governments of the epoch, by the radical groups of the epoch, by the communications media.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Character
  • Secret
  • Media

• For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Feel
  • Forgotten
  • Bear

• I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Never
  • Emotional
  • Forgotten

• I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Life
  • Secret
  • Existence

• No one can keep a secret better than a child.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Child
  • Better
  • Secret

• Secrets stolen from deep inside....the drum beats out of time

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Time
  • Deep
  • Secret

• There are ways in which you can make sure that even if people come to the theatre because they know an actor or actress, by the end, theyve forgotten that, and they leave going, Wow - what an amazing play.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Theatre

• The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Character
  • Personality
  • Secret

• The secret of poetry is cruelty.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Poetry
  • Secret
  • Cruelty

• There was a show in which these scientists shared the secrets of the world's oldest living people, people still functioning past 100 years-old. They found that they exercised everyday, they ate in proportion, that they had a social network of family and friends, and that they had some sort of faith. So, that's what I'm doing now, very consciously. Instead of working out three times a week, I do something physical, like a one-hour walk everyday.

  

  Beverly Johnson
  • People
  • World
  • Family

• They don't know you're secretly a badass?

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Secret
  • Badass

• And a secret inward voice in my head was saying (in a strange breathy voice...) Yes, yessss, I will pop round to The Blind Pig. I will 'pop' round because guess who lives at the Blind Pig? It is not a blind pig, it is Alex.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Secret
  • Strange
  • Blind

• We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Mother
  • Age
  • Earth

• The British use a system where the profits a corporation reports to shareholders is what they pay taxes on. Whereas in America we require corporations to keep two sets of books, one for shareholders and one for the IRS, and the IRS records are secret. For publicly-traded companies, the British system would tend to align the interests of the government with the interests of the company because the company wants to report the biggest possible profit. Though, all wealthy countries have high taxes as wealth requires lots of common goods, from clean water to public education to a justice system.

  

  David Cay Johnston
  • Country
  • Education
  • Justice

• If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Success
  • Fear
  • Happiness

• Any relationship has its strengths and weakness.

  

  Normani Kordei Hamilton Fifth Harmony
  • Relationship
  • Weakness
  • Strengths

• The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Secret
  • Forgotten
  • Fortunes