Honore de Balzac Quotes About Pride

Quotes about: Pride

• Beaucoup d'hommes ont un orgueil qui les pousse a' cacher leurs combats et a' ne se montrer que victorieux. Many men have pride that causes them to hide their combats and to only show themselves victorious.

  Honore de Balzac

  Pride, Men, Causes

• Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.

  Honore de Balzac

  Struggle, Pride, Men

• A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent.

  Honore de Balzac

  Pride, Men, May

  Honore de Balzac (1899). “The Muse of the Department”, p.141, Library of Alexandria

• A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and awakens the most magnificent feelings in his heart.

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Pride, Men

• 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

• The causes that govern the heart appear to be wholly alien to the results achieved. Are the forces that moved a desperate criminal the same that fill a martyr with pride, as both mount the scaffold?

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Pride, Criminals

• At thirty years a woman asks her lover to give her back the esteem she has forfeited for his sake; she lives only for him, her thoughts are full of his future, he must have a great career, she bids him make it glorious; she can obey, entreat, command, humble herself, or rise in pride; times without number she brings comfort when a young girl can only make moan.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Girl, Women

  "A Woman of Thirty" by Honore de Balzac, translated by Ellen Marriag, (Ch. III), 1842.

• 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.

  Honore de Balzac

  Work, Pride, Mind

  "A Daughter of Eve". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1839.

• Is there any instinct more deeply implanted in the heart of man than the pride of protection, a protection which is constantly exerted for a fragile and defenceless creature?

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Pride, Men

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Old Goriot: Classic French Literature”, p.74, 谷月社

• She who is really a wife, one in heart, flesh, and bone, must follow wherever he leads, in whom her life, her strength, her pride, and happiness are centered.

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Pride, Wife

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.97, The Floating Press

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