Creative Quotations from Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Honore de Balzac
(1799-1850) born on May 20

French author. "He developed the realistic novel describing French society in "Comedie Humaine," 1841."

I am laughing to think what risks you take to try to find money in a desk by night where the legal owner can never find any by day.

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will-power.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

"Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman."

To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	Said on waking to find a burglar in the room. Attrib.
R:	"La Muse du departement.""
A:	"Quoted in: André Gide, Journals 1889 --1949 (ed. by Justin O'Brien, 1951), entry for 1911."
N:	"The Physiology of Marriage.""
K:	"In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997."