Honore de Balzac Quotes

I am a galley slave to pen and ink.

Honore de Balzac

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• When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Man
  • Literature
  • Pen

• The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Star
  • Problems
  • Slave

• There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter what, keep that hand moving. Writing is really a physical activity.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Hand

• I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Up
  • Nothing
  • Building

• The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Girl
  • Fear
  • Slave

• The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Up
  • Words
  • Day

• I work by hand, with a fountain pen, in bound notebooks I buy in India.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Work
  • Hand
  • Pen

• If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Up
  • Year
  • Run

• It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn't pick up a guitar or a pen for seven years.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Up
  • May
  • Guitar

• 'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.

  

  Leif Garrett
  • Slave
  • Again
  • Anymore

• No more slave States and no more slave territory.

  

  Salmon Portland Chase
  • Slavery
  • Slave
  • States

• It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Great
  • Mistake
  • Slave

• I struggle with how humankind ended up this way. We made ourselves slaves to money, and we all have to work and be a part of this thing when time is always ticking. And before we know it, a decade has gone by, and did I really get to do everything I wanted to do or say everything I wanted to say?

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• A dog gladly admits the superiority of his master over himself, accepts his judgment as final, but, contrary to what dog-lovers believe, he does not consider himself as a slave. His submission is voluntary, and he expects his own small rights to be respected.

  

  Axel Munthe
  • Believe
  • Small
  • Dog

• But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Power
  • Lost
  • Religion

• Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?"

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Free
  • Problem
  • Slave

• Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of another man, neither that other man nor anybody else has a right to object.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Judge
  • Choose
  • Slave

• This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • World
  • Slave
  • Compensation

• What seems like comfort and security one day can all be taken away the very next.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Day
  • Taken
  • Security

• I'm bound to say that New York's a topping place to be exiled in. Everybody was awfully good to me, and there seemed to be plenty of things going on, and I'm a wealthy bird, so everything was fine.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Good
  • Bird

• As soon as man seeks to penetrate the secrets of Nature--in which nothing is secret and it is but a question of seeing--he realizes that the simple produces the supernatural.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Question
  • Supernatural
  • Secrets Of Nature

• No more misquoted forms, lost invoices, redundant entries, missing checks, or delays caused by incomplete paperwork.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Checks
  • Forms
  • Paperwork

• And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean the suicide, who deprives himself by violence of his appointed share of life. Not because the law of the state requires him. Nor yet under the compulsion of some painful and inevitable misfortune which has come upon him. Nor because he has had to suffer from irremediable and intolerable shame, but who from sloth or want of manliness imposes upon himself an unjust penalty.

  

  Plato
  • Violence
  • Shame
  • Suffer

• I am a galley slave to pen and ink.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Slave
  • Pen
  • Ink