A Quote by Honore de Balzac

A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.

Honore de Balzac

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Everything Familiarity Monster Which

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Honore de Balzac
French - Novelist
May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

Honore de Balzac

Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

Honore de Balzac

Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Le mariage doit incessamment combattre un monstre qui de v ore tout: l'habitude. Marriage should always combat the monster that devours everything: habit.

Honore de Balzac

love is that burning fire which devours everything and shall never, never cease in all the endless ages to come.

Hadewijch

The monster behind the wall stirred. I'd come to think of it as a monster, but it was just me. Or the darker part of me, at least. You probably think it would be creepy to have a real monster hiding inside of you, but trust me - it's far, far worse when the monster is really just your own mind. Calling it a monster seemed to distance it a little, which made me feel better about it. Not much better, but I take what I can get.

Dan Wells

I always enjoyed doing monster books. Monster books gave me the opportunity to draw things out of the ordinary. Monster books were a challenge - what kind of monster would fascinate people?

Jack Kirby

I think what all the Universal monster movies are defined by, and what makes them very special, is that it's really the only genre entirely unto itself, in which you fear the monster and fear for the monster. That's a very hard thing to do. To fear for and fear at the same time is extremely unique.

Alex Kurtzman

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Charles Baudelaire

People look at me as if I were some sort of monster, but I can't think why. In my macabre pictures, I have either been a monster-maker or a monster-destroyer, but never a monster. Actually, I'm a gentle fellow. Never harmed a fly. I love animals, and when I'm in the country I'm a keen bird-watcher.

Peter Cushing

Familiarity breeds contempt, but without a little familiarity it's impossible to breed anything.

Noel Coward

I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity.

Gertrude Stein

Similar to the familiarity I've always had with the ball, there's this familiarity that the game has given me over years of understanding it and living it.