• We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

  Honoré de Balzac
  French writer 1799-1850
  - +

   0

See all quotes by Honoré de Balzac

Subjects in these quotes:

1. exaggerate
2. misfortune
3. happiness
4. alike
5. never
6. happy

Similar authors

• Francois de la Rochefoucauld
  French writer 176
• Albert Camus
  French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) 134
• Voltaire
  French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) 132
• Victor Hugo
  French writer 78
• Jean de la Bruyère
  French writer 70
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  French writer and philosopher 67
• Anatole France
  French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) 57
• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  French writer 49

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. by : Honoré de Balzac

Greatest-Quotations.com

Already since 2003 providing you with the best quotations