Honore de Balzac Quotes


No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.


Citations

Balzac, Honoré de. A Bachelor's Establishment. Translated by Clara Bell, J. M. Dent and Co., 1897, p. 81.

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Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac
  • Born: May 20, 1799
  • Died: August 18, 1850
  • Nationality: French
  • Profession: Writer, Critic, Journalist

Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.