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Quotes by French Authors
"If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul."
"But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient strata and to the ebbing of the sea after the formations of new layers."
"During such a competition players are there for a long time as well as all the people around them. They need to train, to eat, to go out. There ought to be something in it for everyone. On that particular point, my experience has been a bonus."
"When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied."
"Humanity is quite a unique species, since it is the only one with the means to wipe itself out."
"Jesus Christ is a God whom we approach without pride and before whom we humble ourselves without despair."
"We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence."
"Nothing is less instructive than a machine."
"It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners."
"The only things you learn are the things you tame."
"Kings are in the moral order what monsters are in the natural."
"I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year."
"Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful."
"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."
"Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings."
"There were always questions about my parents; I got so fed up with that."
"Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes."
"Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself."
"The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation."
"A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings."
"Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology."
"The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver."
"It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money."
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea."
"If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company."
"There is a melancholy that stems from greatness."
"Without going to what I think is my limit. I always say that my ideal is to get pole with the minimum effort, and to win the race at the slowest speed possible."
"My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible."
"Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything."
"You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do-or don't do."
"When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory."
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