Quotes by French/France authors (page 3)

"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

"When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion"

Voltaire, Writer

"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it"

Voltaire, Writer

"Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest"

Voltaire, Writer

"Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"Women are nothing but machines for producing children"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them"

Victor Hugo, Author

"A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent"

Victor Hugo, Author

"It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"Acting is happy agony"

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die"

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

"No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point"

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

"My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare"

Rene Descartes, Mathematician

"One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another"

Rene Descartes, Mathematician

"We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

"The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money"

Alexandre Dumas, Dramatist

"Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors"

Jean Baudrillard, Sociologist

"One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants"

Marquis de Sade, Novelist

"All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one"

Marquis de Sade, Novelist

"To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them"

Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher

"Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened"

Anatole France, Novelist

"God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation"

John Calvin, Theologian