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Honore de Balzac Quotes
«We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.»
Author: Honore de Balzac
(Novelist)
| About:
Happiness,
Misfortune
| Keywords:
as we say, exaggerate, misfortune
«Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden glow, even as the glory of a noble love shines like a sort of light from a woman's face»
Author: Honore de Balzac
(Novelist)
| About:
Conviction
| Keywords:
clay, commonest, devout, even as, glow, golden glow, indefinable, reflects, shrine, worshiper, worshipers
«He went to bed and slept the sleep of the good-for-nothing which, by an anachronism not a single songwriter has yet struck, is proven to be more sound than that of innocence»
Author: Honore de Balzac
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
anachronism, good-for-nothing, proven, single bed, slept, songwriter, songwriters, struck
«It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.»
Author: Honore de Balzac
(Novelist)
| About:
Husbands,
Marriage
| Keywords:
from time to time, Pretty Things, witty
«To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.»
Author: Honore de Balzac
(Novelist)
| About:
Killing,
Relationships,
Relatives
| Keywords:
genuine, inherit, relative, To Kill a
«It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to produce the occasional bon mot»
Author: Honore de Balzac
(Novelist)
| About:
Husbands,
Lovers
| Keywords:
Bon, bon mot, MOT, mots, occasional, witty