Honore de Balzac Quotes

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

Honore de Balzac

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• The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Feeling
  • Like
  • Friendship

• I've worked in a call centre and as a nightclub waitress. I served champagne to Rihanna.

  

  Fleur East
  • Call
  • Champagne
  • Nightclub

• I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like to do so ensconced on a chaise longue, perfumed, wearing a velvet robe and pearl earrings, with a flute of champagne beside me and having just discovered the answer to the last problem in a British cryptic crossword.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne - bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive.

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Life
  • Gratitude
  • Drunk

• I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Up
  • Home
  • Words

• When we won the title, I received gifts and cards, bottles of wine, and Champagne. When I was sacked, my house was full.

  

  Claudio Ranieri
  • House
  • Wine
  • Champagne

• Life is too short to not have oysters and champagne sometimes.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Life
  • Champagne

• One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.

  

  Lawrence Welk
  • Time
  • Music
  • Champagne

• If the Age of Sport has been all champagne and roses hitherto, then expect our love affair with its newly-acquired prominence to become increasingly tainted by scandals about cheating. Sport is losing its shine and allure.

  

  Martin Jacques
  • Age
  • Shine
  • Cheating

• I discovered Boulder not through cycling but skiing. I was recruited by the university for the ski team, and in my opinion, it's the best place for skiing - you have this super-light, fluffy champagne snow.

  

  Tyler Hamilton
  • Team
  • Light
  • Opinion

• I remember getting flowers and champagne for being one of the first black artists on MTV. That was a big deal.

  

  Tionne Watkins TLC
  • Remember
  • Black
  • Champagne

• The champagne tastes the same if you're sitting bolt upright or sunk back into a sofa, so you might as well be upright, because you look better.

  

  Anouska Hempel
  • Champagne

• I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler. I don't like beer.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Beer
  • Champagne

• In the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of champagne.

  

  Paul Claudel
  • May
  • Champagne

• Pink Champagne is about having fun and letting go, and living your life to the fullest!

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Pink

• A dry martini,' he said. 'One. In a deep champagne goblet.' ... Just a moment. Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon-peel. Got it?

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Deep
  • Cold
  • Champagne

• We drown our doubts in dry champagne and soothe our souls with fine cocaine. I don't know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Why
  • High
  • Souls

• I have a great love of animals and laughter.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Great
  • Laughter
  • Animals

• When, from the depths of your heart, you spontaneously wish all beings to find true, lasting happiness, this is great love.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Great
  • Heart
  • True

• We have to get to the Self beyond its physical and mental instrumentalities to realize we are not fragile mortal beings; there is an unbroken link between ourselves and the Beloved Mother of the Universe, the Divine Consciousness flowing through and permeating Infinity.

  

  Daya Mata
  • Mother
  • Realizing
  • Consciousness

• I simply do not think that yelling, swearing, threatening or belittling will get you to the place you want to be faster than kindness, understanding, patience and a little willingness to compromise.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Think
  • Understanding
  • Patience

• I think we have the same goals in mind. We are not planning on just all of a sudden taking a film and separating. Hopefully one day she can direct me in something, or I will direct her. Or we'll produce a movie under our company's name.

  

  Mary-Kate Olsen
  • Mind
  • She
  • Movie

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

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Champagne
  • Great Love
  • Tisane