I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Translators who choose to work on canonized writers can usually lean on an extensive critical apparatus around either the author or the… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
My film is actually very critical of the level of French we're using back home. To have an immigrant from an ancient… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
“Balzac was pretty funny. His philosophy is plain and simple, says basically that pure materialism is a recipe for madness. The only… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
It is scarcely exaggeration to say that if one is not a little mad about Balzac at twenty, one will never live;… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Thackeray and Balzac will make it possible for our descendants to live over again the England and France of to-day. Seen in… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
Balzac, you know, our great Balzac, he wrote interesting things about how in literature you keep distance in order to express great… — Isabelle Huppert Copy Share Image
“Ha a nők elmésnek, tehetségesnek találják, a férfiak el fogják hinni, hogy az, hacsak maga ki nem ábrándítja őket. Akkor aztán mindent… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Yes, I can understand that a man might go to gambling table - when he sees that all that lies between himself… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Between Malraux, Balzac, and Montaigne, I choose Montaigne. Montaigne will survive all the others, because the essay, meaning direct communication between the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“. . . when a woman has a husband And you've got none, Why should she take advice from you? Even if… — Meredith Willson Copy Share Image
“Surely a man must be in a parlours state to excite pity, extremely weak to inspire sympathy, or very evil-looking to make… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
“I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not. Across the color-line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas , where… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“There is something noble as well as terrible about suicide. The downfall of many men is not dangerous, for they fall like… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
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