Honore de Balzac Quotes

A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.

Honore de Balzac

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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What I love about the Don Draper character is that he's so real and filled with all these contradictions.

Jerry Della Femina

LoveCharacterRealContradictions

It is important to me that what Poe has to say gets across to people. I want to give people the feeling that I get from all this. I think that we are succeeding. The feedback is very warm.

John Astin

PeopleMeThinkWarmFeedbackWant

I think mobile advertising is going to be huge.

Matt Cohler

AdvertisingThinkGoingMobileHuge

Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.

Shirley Jackson

LifeChildrenMemoirDisrespectful

I understand reversal of fortune; that usually has come through my own hand, but you know, you live life on life's terms.

Robert Downey, Jr.

LifeLiveLive LifeYouKnowHand

After film school, I embarked on trying to promote independent films. But after a while, I realized I was breaking my back doing six-day-a-week shoots, 14-hour days, and no guarantee of distribution.

Devin Ratray

SchoolDoingTryingBackIndependent

I think the World Trade Center should be rebuilt as the World Trade Center, only stronger and one story taller. I hate what they're doing with the World Trade Center site.

Donald Trump

HateWorldStoryThinkDoingTrade

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

Confucius

KindnessSoulPracticeGenerosity

I was always into punk, ever since I was 13, but I was into other stuff, too - like, well, the Spice Girls. I really liked Scary Spice.

Alice Dellal

SpiceScaryAlwaysPunkWellStuff

It was very early, and we were still like beta or alpha stage, and so we started receiving a ton of download. The server became overloaded, and that's when I realized that this had a huge market.

Shawn Fanning

EarlyStageAlphaStartedMarket

Trauma and pain and suffering can be the very thing that dislodges a person from themselves both in awful ways and larger ways that force one to reckon with one's own life.

Scott Derrickson

LifePainSufferingPersonTrauma

Your relationship to food is but a reflection of your relationship to yourself, as is everything in your life.

Marianne Williamson

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