French Journalist Quotes

The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.

Nicolas Chamfort

Rumor, once started, rushes on like a river, until it mingles with, and is lost in the sea.

Antoine de Rivarol

Flowing water is at once a picture and a music, which causes to flow at the same time from my brain, like a limpid and murmuring rivulet, sweet thoughts, charming reveries, and melancholy remembrances.

To marry a woman you love and who loves you is to lay a wager with her as to who will stop loving the other first.

When we are not rich enough to be able to purchase happiness, we must not approach too near and gaze on it in shop windows.

Tristan Bernard

The other would be the real one, composed entirely of young enthusiasts in camouflage uniforms, who would not be put on display, but from whom impossible efforts would be demanded and to whom all sorts of tricks would be taught. That's the army in which I should like to fight.

At some point, after years or even centuries of submitting like sheep to slaughter, Hindus—whom the Mahatma once gently called cowards—erupt in uncontrolled fury. And it hurts badly. It happened in Gujarat. It happened in Jammu, then in Kandhamal, Mangalore, and Malegaon. It may happen again elsewhere.

François Gautier

How could you let yourself be sidetracked while I was waiting for your breath on my back?

She couldn't imagine why there was such a difference between those children and her. She couldn't imagine why she and all these other people with her had to be treated this way. Who decided this, and what for?

Tatiana de Rosnay

Real excellence and humility are consequently not incompatible one with the other; on the contrary, they are twin sisters.

Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire