Honore de Balzac Quotes

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Honore de Balzac

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• I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Think
  • Wise
  • Back

• I went to Antarctica on a science research boat just to sort of clear my head.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Science
  • Research
  • Boat

• You grow up and change your look. I feel different from how I did in my Playboy days. Now I think I'm in charge of toning down my look or not.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Up
  • Different
  • Change

• Armenian folklore has it that three apples fell from Heaven: one for the teller of a story, one for the listener, and the third for the one who 'took it to heart.' What a pity Heaven awarded no apple to the one who wrote the story down.

  

  Nancy Willard
  • Heart
  • Heaven
  • Three

• But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Movies
  • Old
  • Hollywood

• It is a pleasure to play under Jose Mourinho, and everything is OK. I learn every day. He is a normal coach. He speaks a lot with the players. I like it when the manager speaks a lot with you because it gives you confidence.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Day
  • Confidence
  • Learn

• It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • You
  • Rude

• I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties, but I never do that. I'm not really human.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Friends
  • Lunch

• I love to go all out - once I start doing my makeup, I kind of tend to do a lot of it. So like foundation, contour, highlight, eyeliner, shadow, lashes, lipstick - everything! But I really, really love my contours.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Like
  • Start
  • Makeup

• My dad, of course, like a lot of Asian parents, wanted me to be an engineer or doctor and never could understand why I would want to be a lawyer. And then, when I first said I wanted to run for office, he thought that was absolutely insane.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Why
  • Parents
  • Dad

• Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you're in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you're depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Good
  • Important
  • Success

• I am very, very diligent and extremely hard-working.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Hardworking
  • Diligent

• I don't know that white people need to be 'allies' so much as understand that any black struggle in America is ultimately a struggle for the large country. 'Ally' presumes a kind of distance that I am not sure exists.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Country
  • America

• We print money. The people that print the money is actually us. The government of the United States of America. By its very nature, we control that, and this system is there as representation of us.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • People
  • Money
  • America

• I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Man
  • Wonder
  • Dreams

• Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • Children
  • Mother

• I try personally not to be nostalgic.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Try
  • Personally
  • Nostalgic

• Fidesz's different air and its own culture must be preserved.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Different
  • Culture
  • Air

• I've seen it over the years, the more intellectual they are, the more work they don't want to do. You have to do both, you have to be able to put in the graft.

  

  Bertie Ahern
  • Work
  • Intellectual
  • Graft

• And so today, the undermining of the home and family is on the increase, with the devil anxiously working to displace the father as the head of the home and create rebellion among the children. Isaiah describes the condition when he states, "As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them." and then these words follow-and consider these words seriously when you think of those political leaders who are promoting birth control and abortion: "O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths."

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Children
  • Family
  • Father

• No nation has ever prospered or been blessed like the colored people in the South.

  

  Bob Jones, Sr.
  • Blessed
  • Nation
  • Colored People

• The day will come, however, when they will truly know the Unification Church and me. The day will come when the truth will be known and the message of love will be taught. On that day, their regret will be deep.

  

  Sun Myung Moon
  • Church
  • Regret
  • Taught

• Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Nation
  • Manners
  • Hypocrisy