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

• The richness of life lies in the memories we have forgotten.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Life
  • Memories
  • Forgotten

• The secret of successful fiction is a continual slight novelty.

  

  Edmund Gosse
  • Secret
  • Fiction
  • Novelty

• As a child, I really did see buildings bombed, and what makes me different from an American that's the same age as I am is that I can understand what happens when there is fighting in a way that they couldn't.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Different
  • Children
  • American

• Andy Gullahorn is my favorite new musical discovery of the past five years. He's a brilliant writer, a fine musician and a generous spirit.

  

  David LaMotte
  • Past
  • Writer
  • Favorite

• Behind the debris of these self-styled, sullen supermen and imperial diplomatists, there stands the gigantic figure of one person, because of whom, by whom, in whom, and through whom alone mankind might still have hope. The person of Jesus Christ.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Hope
  • Alone
  • Jesus

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

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Secret
  • Forgotten
  • Fortunes