Quote by Honoré de Balzac Download Open image ““He had eaten as much as a travelling actor and drunk like the sands of the desert" Maxence Gilet”” — Honoré de Balzac ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“There had been nights in the desert where I was so sick with laughter, convulsed and doubled over with aching stomach for hours on… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“Pete’s eyes followed not the vehicle as it trundled forward but instead the varied and complicated horizon of the desert. The very last of the sun played over it and every stalk of grass dripped with honeyed light. His back ached and his arms were pebbled with goose bumps, but as he savored the view and sucked in big, juniper-scented… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share
“ Once they rode camels in the desert; once they drove caravans across Europe. They eat screams and drink pain. You had your horrors… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“ Desert Pools I love too much; I am a river Surging with spring that seeks the sea, I am too generous a giver,… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
“He's like the desert itself: it's so beautiful, it's so warm, but there are sharp edges everywhere that you have to watch out for” — Kathleen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“Hamet, Seid, and Abdallah were stung by the irony that on the wild desert, where people had virtually nothing, they shared freely, but here,… — Dean King Copy Share Image
“I'd rather die than be famous, I want to go live in the desert With long wild hair, eating At my campfire, full of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Waste forces within him, and a desert all around, this man stood still on his way across a silent terrace, and saw for a moment, lying in the wilderness before him, a mirage of honourable ambition, self-denial, and perseverance. In the fair city of this vision, there were airy galleries from which the loves and graces looked upon him, gardens… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“The desert is full of things you can’t hold on to — light and heat and sand that slips through your fingers like friendships… — Al Riske Copy Share Image
“Oh, my friend, when you love, love a woman whom you are sure that you can love always. Never forsake a woman.” — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
“You have broken the ice, though you have not even scratched its glossy surface: you have placed your hand upon the croup of the most ferocious and savage, the most wakeful and clear-sighted, the most restless, the swiftest, the most jealous, the most ardent and violent, the simplest and most elegant, the most unreasonable, the most watchful chimera of the… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share
It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion and of the lamb, Prayer! Prayer will give you the key of heaven! Bold and pure as innocence, strong, like all that is single and simple, this glorious, invincible Queen rests, nevertheless, on the material world;… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share
All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image