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

• It's been a straight strip, I must tell you, I've enjoyed it all the way. If I'm saying things to make it sound like it's hard, hard work, it's not. It's beautiful work. It's fun work. It's everything you'd ever want to do.

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Beautiful

• Chris Brown is a fantastic artist and songwriter and to be able to work with him was kind of unbelievable.

  

  Joe Jonas DNCE
  • Work

• I'm not too good at being fake or being somebody else.

  

  Brantley Gilbert
  • Good
  • Fake

• For me, fiction isn't very cathartic. It can be a broad, long catharsis, but it's a whole different thing - whereas music is physical. Essentially, it goes in through your ear. Fiction is cerebral, necessarily. It can do emotional stuff. But they don't really compare - not for me.

  

  John Darnielle
  • Music
  • Different
  • Long

• The word 'definition' has come to have a dangerously reassuring sound, owing no doubt to its frequent occurrence in logical and mathematical writings.

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Writing
  • Doubt
  • Logical

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

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Champagne
  • Great Love
  • Tisane