Quotes by Balzac, Honore De

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. >>

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one frien >>

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. >>

Quotations about Amusement

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself >>

The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. >>

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas. >>

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.

Balzac, Honore De