• Categories
Location |   Home >> Quotes SMS >> Author Wise Quotes >> Honore De Balzac Quotes
  • Honore De Balzac Quotes   668
  • [Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it is in ourselves, an interpreter for the communication of ideas and sensations, an exhaustless source of poetic inspiration. Every figure is a world in itself, a portrait of which the original appeared in a sublime vision, in a flood of light, pointed to by an inward voice, laid bare by a divine finger which showed what the sources of expression had been in the whole past life of the subject.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Inspiration Quotes , Communication Quotes
  • Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains; while the angelic spirit sees and understands. Science saddens man; love enraptures the angel; science is still seeking; love has found.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Angel Quotes
  • A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who is in love no longer belongs to himself, and may not take his own life. Love makes us almost sacred in our own eyes; it is the life of another that we revere within us; then and so begins for us the cruelest trouble of all.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Love Quotes , Eye Quotes
  • This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at fault for an excuse, which makes an outcry at the wound which it condones, is one of the most distinctive features of the journalist. This camaraderie (the word is a stroke of genius) corrodes the noblest minds; it eats into their pride like rust, kills the germ of great deeds, and lends a sanction to moral cowardice.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Work Quotes , Pride Quotes