Honore de Balzac Quotes

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

Honore de Balzac

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SoulNothingVirtueMorePoliteness

I feel like you can do all the research in the world, but when you start putting that costume on, put your hair in a wig and walk into those sets, that's where the visceral reaction is. It's no longer in the head. It's in the body.

Anastasia Griffith

WalkResearchHairWorldStartBody

One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that.

Mo Rocca

FatherTreeLovedGoChristmasSee

Now, there are more and more Asian models and opportunities to understand Asian beauty.

Liu Wen

BeautyOpportunitiesNowUnderstand

Comedy lives on in the web and TV, but nobody's pressing comedy albums anymore.

Jason Alexander

ComedyNobodyWebAnymoreTVAlbums

We recognize in a plant some unknown power, a single, form-giving force, which creates and conserves, which moves unwaveringly toward its end, which appropriates what is useful to it and rejects that which would harm it.

Joseph de Maistre

PowerEndPlantUnknownSingleHarm

Every time I start chasing my tail, and I'm trying to control all these elements of my universe, I pray, 'I'm not in control of any of this. I can just do the best I can. Please guide me. Please help me figure how I can move through this in the way You would have me.'

Cheryl Ladd

TimeBestMeControlStartHelp

Usually, when I write a novel, it takes me about 100 pages to figure out the voice of the narrator.

Colson Whitehead

MeVoiceWriteOutFigureTakes

I am not perfect. I know that. None of us is perfect.

Brett Kavanaugh

I AmNot PerfectPerfectKnowUsAm

I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. That's how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.

Bruce Sterling

TodayI AmStudentT-ShirtPunkHow

Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training.

Arne Jacobsen

TrainingSchoolThinkYouHardFine

Loving oneself isn't hard, when you understand who and what 'yourself' is. It has nothing to do with the shape of your face, the size of your eyes, the length of your hair or the quality of your clothes. It's so beyond all of those things and it's what gives life to everything about you. Your own self is such a treasure.

Phylicia Rashad

LifeEyesQualityYourselfHairYou

Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country.

Timothy Noah

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