Honore de Balzac Quotes

A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne.

Honore de Balzac

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• I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Play
  • Always
  • Start

• When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Black
  • Dad
  • Black-and-white

• There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you, you're not really allowed to enjoy them.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Nice
  • Enjoy
  • Catholic

• When you're on TV, you come into people's homes. In theater and film, they go to you - to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it's very different.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • People
  • Different
  • Home

• The discovery that the universe has no purpose need not prevent a human being from having one.

  

  Irwin Edman
  • Universe
  • Purpose

• What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?

  

  Alan Paton
  • Man
  • Kill
  • Broke

• An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Intellectual

• The simple practice of hesitation helps you stop reacting blindly to everything that happens.

  

  Ma Jaya
  • Stop
  • Simple
  • Practice

• Harry, just go down to the lake tomorrow, right, stick your head in, yell at the merpeople to give back whatever they’ve nicked, and see if they chuck it out. Best you can do, mate.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Lake

• The only sin is stupidity.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Sin
  • Stupidity

• What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.

  

  Astrid Lindgren
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Long

• Sex when you're married is like going to the 7-Eleven: There's not much variety, but at three in the morning, it's always there.

  

  Carol Leifer
  • Morning
  • Sex
  • Married

• Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Help
  • Jesus
  • Human

• The great, God-blessed churches in the world today have one common characteristic: an insistence upon an exposition of God's infallible Word.

  

  O. S. Hawkins
  • World
  • Great
  • God

• It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Miracle

• If tribulation is a necessary element in redemption, we must anticipate that it will never cease till God sees the world to be either redeemed or no further redeemable.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • God
  • Elements

• For me, the guitar was just a tool to make songs. I started when I was 10 - I learned what I had to learn to get my ideas across. I always felt I was a weak guitar player, but now I realize with the finger-picking stuff, I actually know how to do what I do with my songs, but I couldn't step in and be an overall guitar player. But my guitar playing has always been driven by the need to write songs.

  

  Anna Ternheim
  • Write
  • Songs
  • Guitar

• Remember, a website is not a monolith that’s used by one type of people, it does not exist only for one reason. Your job is to figure out what are all of the reasons that it exists for and find the best source to measure it

  

  Avinash Kaushik
  • Source
  • Measure
  • Website

• The best thing is to possess pleasures without being their slave; not to be devoid of pleasures.

  

  Aristippus
  • Slave
  • Possess
  • Pleasures

• A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Slave
  • Throne
  • Married Woman