About Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac ( BAL-zak, also US: BAWL-; French: [ɔnɔʁe d(ə) balzak]; born Honoré Balzac; 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, described as a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.
More quotations from Honoré de Balzac
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
More quotations tagged with “ugliness”
Always live in the ugliest house on the street—then you don't have to look at it.
Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.
What's the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you're so ugly on the inside?
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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