Honore de Balzac Quotes - Famous Quotations and Funny Sayings

"The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear."
John F. Kennedy &bull Voting

"A dog that barks much is never a good hunter."
Proverb &bull Work

"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."
Theodore Roosevelt &bull Education

"Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author."
Jean de la Bruyère &bull Writers

"He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food."
Raymond Chandler &bull Appearance

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(1799-1850) French novelist.

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I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself. - Balzac, Honore De

Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

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