Balzac Quote by Honoré de Balzac Download Open image ““He looked like some plant bleached by darkness.”” — Honoré de Balzac ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Balzac Darkness Depression Pale Plant
“He couldn’t quite formulate what had made the darkness so terrifying, now that he wasn’t looking at it.” — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“There was a silence. The evening darkened in the room. Noiselessly and with silver feet the shadows crept in from the garden. The colours… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I can feel the darkness inside him. There’s something wrong with him. His outer beauty hides something monstrous underneath.” — Anna Zaires Copy Share Image
“For half a century he had stood too close to darkness, and some it crept into his bones.” — Max Gladstone Copy Share Image
“But he had no idea what sort of darkness lurked inside her, or what sort of monster she was willing to become in order… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“Nothing scared me more than the dark. I liked to see what was coming, and darkness was a place where things could hide.” — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
“Darkness was all they knew, and eventually they thought it was the light.” — A.J. Deus Copy Share Image
“If he was the sweet, terrifying darkness, I was the glittering light that only his shadows could make clear.” — Sarah J. Maas 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… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
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… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
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
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 book in… — 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 French colony… — 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 true knowledge… — 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; and if… — 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 this light,… — 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 feelings. You… — 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 akarhat, mindenütt… — 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 impotence, failure… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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