Home / Quotes / Quote by Honore de Balzac

Quote by Honore de Balzac

“Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.”

Quote by Honore de Balzac

Author

Honore de Balzac

French novelist born on May 20, 1799, and died on August 18, 1850. Honore de Balzac is renowned for his profound insight and criticism of 19th-century French society, hailed as the 'father of modern fiction'. more

You May Also Like

“When we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city...”

States Freedom Cities Rings Freedom Liberty Peace And Justice Peace Justice I Have A Dream Speech Kings Speech Freedom And Peace Tenements

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened... I didn't want to be violated in that way.'”

Way Want Said Body Jobs Operations

Author:Walter Isaacson

“Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve.”

“Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it.”

Way Opportunity Enemy Love You Defeat Another Way Love Your Enemies

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual.”

Men Individual Understanding Love Is Creative Defeat Refusal Goodwill

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“A lottery is a tax on stupidity.”

Taxes Stupidity Lottery

Author:Ambrose Bierce

“Oh Man, Man. How despicable in slavery, how great when fired with the love of freedom!”

Men Slavery Despicable

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“You don't pick black actors or black directors because they are black. You pick them because they are good. If you lend somebody 50 million dollars you want you're money back. You don't care if they are oppressed. You just want you're money back.”

Ifs Want Care Actors Black Millions Directors Picks Dollars Don't Care Oppressed Million Dollars

Author:Denzel Washington

“Never walk near the bed; to a ghost your ankle is your most vulnerable part-once in bed, you're safe; he may lie around under the bed all night, but you're safe as daylight. If you still have doubts pull the blanket over your head.”

Ifs May Stills Lying Night Walks Doubt Bed Safe Ghost Vulnerable Over You All Night Blanket Daylight Ankles

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“Progress was a labyrinth ... people plunging blindly in and then rushing wildly back, shouting that they had found it ... the invisible king-the élan vital-the principle of evolution ... writing a book, starting a war, founding a school.”

People Writing Book War School Found Principles Progress Evolution Kings Starting Invisible Founding Writing A Book Shouting Rushing Labyrinth

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works