Honore de Balzac Quotes

France, Novelist
May 20, 1799 – August, 18, 1850.

Honoré de Balzac (/ˈbɔːlzæk, ˈbæl-/; French: [ɔ.nɔ.ʁe d(ə) bal.zak], born Honoré Balzac, 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.

Also known as Playwright

At thirty years a woman asks her lover to give her back the esteem she has forfeited for his sake; she lives only for him, her thoughts are full of his future, he must have a great career, she bids him make it glorious; she can obey, entreat, command, humble herself, or rise in pride; times without number she brings comfort when a young girl can only make moan.

Honore de Balzac
- Pride
- Lover
- Esteem
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

Honore de Balzac
- Eye
- See
- Paint

Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.

Honore de Balzac
- Love
- Woman
- Pleasure
Vivacity is the health of the spirit.

Honore de Balzac
- Health
- Spirit
- Vivacity
We love because we love.

Honore de Balzac
- Love
Life is simply what out feelings do to us.

Honore de Balzac
- Feelings
- Life is
Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

Honore de Balzac
- Argument
- Resist
- Yield
He who best knows the world will love it least.

Honore de Balzac
- World
- Love
- Knows