Honore de Balzac Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.

  Honore de Balzac

  Lying, Judging, Literature

  "'Le Père Goriot' ('Father Goriot')". Book by Honoré de Balzac. Part II, 1835.

• The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.

  Honore de Balzac

  Letting Go, Husband, Lying

• There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.

  Honore de Balzac

  Truth, Real, War

• Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

  Honore de Balzac

  Lying, Worry, Anticipation

• Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.

  Honore de Balzac

  Lying, Greatest Fear, Anticipation

• Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.

  Honore de Balzac

  Art, Lying, Real

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Old Goriot: Classic French Literature”, p.90, 谷月社

• Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.

  Honore de Balzac

  Husband, Lying, Player

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.7, The Floating Press

• 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.

  Honore de Balzac

  Lying, Men, Gambling

• It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome.

  Honore de Balzac

  Lying, Overcoming, Wickedness

• Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws; can you name one to which no fact makes an exception?

  Honore de Balzac

  Lying, Law, Names

  "Seraphita". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1834.

• The secret of the nobility and beauty of great ladies lies in the art with which they can shed their veils. In such situations, they become like ancient statues. If they kept the merest scarf on, they would be lewd. Your bourgeois woman will always try to cover her nakedness.

  Honore de Balzac

  Art, Lying, Secret

• The future of a nation lies in the hands of mothers.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mother, Lying, Hands

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