Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
French Author Quotes
Source
Report...
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
Stendhal
Source
Report...
The distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon.
Jules Verne
Source
Report...
Beautiful... as the fortuitous encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting table.
Comte de Lautréamont
Source
Report...
It is better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.
Georges Courteline
Source
Report...
So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
Colette
Source
Report...
You can pretend to be serious but you can't pretend to be witty.
Sacha Guitry
Source
Report...
We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.
Alfred Jarry
Source
Report...
I love Germany so dearly that I hope there will always be two of them.
François Mauriac
Source
Report...
There is in this world in which everything wears out, everything perishes, one thing that crumbles into dust, that destroys itself still more completely, leaving behind still fewer traces of itself than Beauty: namely Grief.
Marcel Proust
Source
Report...
For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
Victor Hugo
Source
Report...
Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.
Arthur Adamov
Source
Report...
The physician has a sacred mission on earth; and to fulfill it he begins at the source of life, and goes down to the mysterious darkness of the tomb.
Alexandre Dumas
Source
Report...
An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Source
Report...
The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.
André Gide
Source
Report...
In exiling myself I am not exiling a monster, but a man whom society will not allow to live, since it considers one of the mysterious cogs in God's masterpiece to be a mistake.
Jean Cocteau
Source
Report...
We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
Louis Aragon
Source
Report...
Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side.
Alain-René Lesage
Source
Report...
First we must see that we cannot will ourselves to be open because openness is our very nature. Any tiny residue of willing, of wanting to be open takes us away from what we are. Willing never goes beyond willing. So the only way to be free from this circle is to glimpse the truth that openness is the egoless state, that it is here and now
Jean Klein (spiritual teacher)
Source
Report...
Jackals can only howl while the lion devours.
Gabriel Ferry
Source
Report...
Schools everywhere have always confined themselves to making students learn techniques and write essays, while proscribing treading for pleasure. It seems to be established in perpetuity, in every part of the world, that enjoyment has no part to play in the curriculum, and that knowledge can only be the fruit of suffering.
Daniel Pennac
Source
Report...
Followers of trails and of seasons, breakers of camp in the little dawn wind, seekers of watercourses over the wrinkled rind of the world, o seekers, o finders of reasons to be up and be gone....
Saint-John Perse
Source
Report...
Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.
Georges Bernanos
Source
Report...
We must not be timid from a fear of committing faults: the greatest fault of all is to deprive oneself of experience.
Luc de Clapiers
Source
Report...
The Raelian Movement is an atheistic religion that perfectly merges science and spirituality, and it includes many female priests. Men and women must rise above their previous cultural conditioning and look to the future with a new awareness encompassing beauty and femininity.
Raël
Source
Report...
The strong ones among humans do nothing. They talk and talk again.
Muriel Barbery
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Quote of the day
A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.
Lawrence Lovasik
Related Quotes
By profession
Author Quotes
Women Authors
By nationality
American Authors
British Authors
English Authors
By century
20th-century Authors
19th-century Authors
18th-century Authors
17th-century Authors
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes