Quotes by French/France authors (page 3)

"The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest"

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

"We are all born marked for evil"

"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

"Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols"

John Calvin, Theologian

"We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us"

Madame de Stael, Writer

"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

"Audacity, more audacity, always audacity"

Georges Jacques Danton, Revolutionary

"Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world"

Jean-Luc Godard, Director

"The great recipe for success is to work, and always work"

Leon Gambetta, Politician

"Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value"

Ferdinand Foch, Soldier

"Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any"

Jean Rostand, Scientist

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

Marc Bloch, Historian

"Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well"

Voltaire, Writer

"To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered"

Voltaire, Writer

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

Voltaire, Writer

"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one"

Voltaire, Writer

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

Voltaire, Writer

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

Victor Hugo, Author

"Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings"

Victor Hugo, Author

"A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil"

Victor Hugo, Author

"People do not lack strength; they lack will"

Victor Hugo, Author

"He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life"

Victor Hugo, Author

"The flesh is the surface of the unknown"

Victor Hugo, Author

"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

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

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck"

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

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

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

"Hell is other people"

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

"Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

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

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

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

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

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

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature"

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

"Love is a game in which one always cheats"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"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

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Quotes by French authors