Honore de Balzac Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

  Honore de Balzac

  Equality, Power, Literature

  "La Duchesse de Langeais". Essay by Honore de Balzac (1834), published in "Oeuvres completes de H. de Balzac" ("Complete works of Balzac") published by A. Houssiaux (Part II, pp. 111-235), translated by Ellen Marriage, 1855.

• God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

  Honore de Balzac

  Life, Drama, Men

• White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion and of the lamb, Prayer! Prayer will give you the key of heaven! Bold and pure as innocence, strong, like all that is single and simple, this glorious, invincible Queen rests, nevertheless, on the material world; she takes possession of it; like the sun, she clasps it in a circle of light.

  Honore de Balzac

  Strong, Queens, Prayer

  "Seraphita". Book by Honoré de Balzac. Chapter 6: "The Road to Heaven", 1834.

• The weakest being on earth can accomplish feats of strength. The frailest urchin will ring every doorbell on the street in arctic weather or hoist himself aloft to inscribe his name on a virgin monument.

  Honore de Balzac

  Names, Weather, Earth

• When one of those skirt-bearing animals has set herself up above all by permitting herself to be deified, no power on earth can be as proud as she.

  Honore de Balzac

  Pride, Animal, Earth

• Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Earth, Sun

• Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me,-she is like a heavenly angel forgiving the strange incomprehensible sins of earth.

  Honore de Balzac

  Girl, Angel, Forgiving

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Father Goriot”, p.92, Library of Alexandria

• God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven.

  Honore de Balzac

  Player, Men, Heaven

  "Socrate Chrétien" as quoted in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 911-917), 1922.

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