Honore de Balzac Quotes


Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.


Citations

Balzac, Honoré de. Old Goriot. Translated by Ellen Marriage, J.M. Dent & Co., 1896, p. 118.

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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.