Quotes by French/France authors (page 2)

"Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder"

Paul Valery, Poet

"Our true passions are selfish"

Stendhal, Writer

"It requires more courage to suffer than to die"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height"

Victor Hugo, Author

"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing"

Rene Descartes, Mathematician

"In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate"

Rene Descartes, Mathematician

"All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

"A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again"

Jean Renoir, Director

"You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself"

Camille Claudel, Sculptor

"We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us"

Madame de Stael, Writer

"But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding"

Marc Bloch, Historian

"The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs"

Voltaire, Writer

"It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce"

Voltaire, Writer

"Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe"

Voltaire, Writer

"Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"The word impossible is not in my dictionary"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real"

Victor Hugo, Author

"People do not lack strength; they lack will"

Victor Hugo, Author

"The flesh is the surface of the unknown"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted"

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

"I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"The graveyards are full of indispensable men"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once"

Rene Descartes, Mathematician

"Law, without force, is impotent"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer