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.
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
More quotations tagged with “fortune”
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
—Ovid
Fortune and love favor the brave.
—Ovid
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