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Quotes by French Authors
"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much."
"In less than eighteen months, it prepared a first draft which it submitted to the General Assembly and which, at the end of one hundred sessions of elevated, often impassioned discussion, was adopted in the form of thirty articles on December 10, 1948."
"If a product is more expensive than another one, and more sustainable in ecology, consumers will not buy it."
"I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely."
"It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations."
"One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines."
"A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely."
"I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives."
"If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other."
"If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors."
"A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it."
"I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep."
"One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul."
"I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics."
"A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone."
"Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are."
"Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them."
"True love begins when nothing is looked for in return."
"That will be so amusing! You will have five hundred million little bells,and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water..."
"The pressure people put on themselves and the rivalry between the teams is much more marked. And I think that's a good thing. As long as that rivalry remains within the spirit of competition, it con only spur everyone on."
"Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other."
"Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it."
"It's hard luck always having to be a judge."
"Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit."
"Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity."
"Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil."
"All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling."
"Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head."
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