Honore de Balzac Quotes

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

Honore de Balzac

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• I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Work
  • Want
  • Just

• Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • Art
  • Nature
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• In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Family
  • Born
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• I wish I could describe anything I do as conscious or strategized. To be honest, in acting, you have so little control. The only control you have is if you're lucky enough to be in a position, which is not very often, in which you have choice. It's about what choices you make, and for me, it's entirely instinctive.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Control
  • Wish
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• Humans can make friends easily if they are open to it and are interested in other people.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Friends
  • Open

• Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Mind
  • Education
  • Purpose

• I see my work, as being determined by the fact that I was born in 1936.

  

  Frank Stella
  • Work

• I wouldn't record any song that I didn't like.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Song
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• She was starting to feel a little like a hamburger at a dieters’ convention. Nobody was likely to snack on her, but absolutely everybody noticed she was edible.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • She
  • Hamburger
  • Snack

• If they persist with it, they will be dealt with according to law.

  

  Laisenia Qarase
  • Law
  • Persist

• If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Man
  • Suffering
  • Really

• Well, it's more of a sane life to be part of an ensemble! I find that the work can be more specific too and I have to really make sure I know where I am in the story because I'm not in every scene.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • Life
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• I like Nine Inch Nails, and I like hip-hop.

  

  Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
  • Hip Hop
  • Nine Inch Nails

• On the set, everybody is different, so you have to deal with different sensibilities. I don't have a method. Usually, I try to have a good connection with the actor that I'm filming. Even a guy who's there with two lines of dialogue, I always try to have a connection with the guy I'm filming, just to make it into a nice, enjoyable moment.

  

  Quentin Dupieux
  • Good
  • Different
  • Guy

• Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Growing
  • Thing
  • Old

• Our attitude toward others reveals our genuine attitude toward God.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • God
  • Attitude
  • Genuine

• The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them.

  

  Plato
  • Kill
  • Abide
  • Drones

• How great, therefore, the wickedness of human nature is! How many girls there are who prevent conception and kill and expel tender fetuses, although procreation is the work of God.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Kill
  • Human Nature
  • Work Of God

• To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Kill
  • Genuine
  • Inherit