Honore de Balzac Quotes

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

Honore de Balzac

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850

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SelfishnessCourtesyOnlyGeneral

The ball will tell you who the best players are, not the contracts, not the media.

Michael Beasley

BestMediaYouWillTellContracts

If Confucius wasn't born, the long night would have no bright lamp.

Mencius

NightLongBornBrightLampWould

And I remember looking at Gray Davis and, you know, Gray is the consummate political operative.

Mike Curb

LookingPoliticalRememberYouKnow

When I was a child, it was cool to be a scientist.

Michio Kaku

ChildCoolScientist

I just wear very nice pyjamas. When I'm at home, I love to watch movies and relax because when I'm modeling, I'm always travelling. When I'm not working I don't put much make up, but I do love nail polish for that little bit of fun colour.

Liu Wen

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A person's a person, no matter how small.

Dr. Seuss

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The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.

Christiaan Barnard

LifeSufferingGoalPrimeOnlyYour

Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples.

Christopher Dawson

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You can ask my wife - there has always been mutual respect between us, and I believe women should be respected for what they are; at no point should they feel the need to be like men.

Ashish Sharma

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I think transportation and corrections are not the first two areas that I would go looking for massive change.

William Weld

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The size of my head though is pretty abnormal.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

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I was blessed in the sense that I got handed so much early on in life. I got a lot of the things people go through their 20s and 30s craving.

Sheena Easton

LifePeopleBlessedEarlyGoThings

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