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Honore de Balzac
What is art?...
What is art? Nature concentrated.
Source: In Wisdom of the Ages at Your...
Solitude is fine,...
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
Source:...
Power is not...
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
Source: In...
The more one...
The more one judges, the less one loves.
Source: In Wisdom of the Ages at Your...
The glory of...
The glory of surgeons is like that of actors, who exist only in their lifetime and whose talent is no longer...
Vocations which we...
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our...
We cannot confront...
We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
Source: Madame de la...
You may imitate,...
You may imitate, but never counterfeit.
Source: In
All human power...
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
Source: In Wisdom of the Ages...
With monuments as...
With monuments as with men, position means everything.
Source: Droll Stories,...
If those who...
If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring,...
Modesty is the...
Modesty is the conscience of the body.
Source:
-- Honore de Balzac, (May 20...
Journalism is a...
Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pygmy hatreds.
Source: Droll...
It is easier...
It is easier to be a lover than a husband, for the same reason that it is more difficult to show a ready wit all day...
I should like...
I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . ....
A mother who...
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
Source: In
Passion is universal...
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be...
Behind every fortune...
Behind every fortune there is a crime.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...
One exits with...
One exits with one's husband -- one lives with one's lover.
Source: In Webster's...
Friendships last when...
Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.