Quotes by French/France authors (page 5)

"It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue"

Voltaire, Writer

"Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense"

Voltaire, Writer

"He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead"

Voltaire, Writer

"Common sense is not so common"

Voltaire, Writer

"Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law"

Voltaire, Writer

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

Voltaire, Writer

"Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices"

Voltaire, Writer

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

Voltaire, Writer

"The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year"

Voltaire, Writer

"The multitude of books is making us ignorant"

Voltaire, Writer

"Prejudices are what fools use for reason"

Voltaire, Writer

"Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument"

Voltaire, Writer

"Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts"

Voltaire, Writer

"Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him"

Voltaire, Writer

"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets"

Voltaire, Writer

"Fear follows crime and is its punishment"

Voltaire, Writer

"Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Life is the flower for which love is the honey"

Victor Hugo, Author

"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses"

Victor Hugo, Author

"We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"Medicines are only fit for old people"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"Imagination rules the world"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"Ability is nothing without opportunity"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal"

Victor Hugo, Author

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

Victor Hugo, Author

"Perseverance, secret of all triumphs"

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

"Habit is the nursery of errors"

Victor Hugo, Author

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Quotes by French authors