Honore de Balzac

Quotes by Honore de Balzac

 

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Honore de Balzac

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Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Honore de Balzac

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

Honore de Balzac

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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

Otto von Bismarck

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Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

Marilyn Monroe

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Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.

Philip Massinger

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