Quotes from authors born in 1799
Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
Honore De Balzac
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Honore De Balzac
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
Honore De Balzac
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
Honore De Balzac
It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.
Honore De Balzac
Ben Elton 
Andy Richter 
Ian Botham 
Frank Sinatra 
Cecil Frank Powell 
James Garner 
Andrea Martin 
Augusten Burroughs