Famous Quotes | At fifteen, beauty and talent do...

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman. - Honoré De Balzac
Attribution: Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850), French novelist. Then in vol. I, ch. V, of the Comédie humaine (1845, trans. by George Saintsbury, 1971). Narrator, in A Daughter of Eve (Une Fille d’Eve), published with Massimilla Doni, Souverain (1839), first appeared in Le Siècle (1838-1839).

Categories: Beauty, Talent, Youth

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