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Quotes by French Authors
"Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before."
"The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious."
"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."
"I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate."
"Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art."
"There are defeats more triumphant than victories."
"The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams."
"One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere."
"Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking."
"Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing."
"Actors have to be there and do the work, and that's enough."
"Admiration and familiarity are strangers."
"Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death."
"Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things."
"He reflected. 'I know a lot of different kids of people what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!"
"Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty."
"The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband."
"The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past."
"Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover."
"There are words which close a conversation as with an iron door."
"The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either."
"I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland."
"Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being."
"Fashion condemns us to many follies the greatest is to make oneself its slave."
"The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind."
"There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom."
"The saddest thing is that every love has an unhappy ending, and all the more unhappy in proportion to how divinely it began, with what wings it first took flight."
"The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse."
"In love, one and one are one."
"Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors."
"I have heard Silvius, an excellent physician of Paris, say that lest the digestive faculties of the stomach should grow idle, it were not amiss once a month to rouse them by this excess, and to spur them lest they should grow dull and rusty; and one author tells us that the Persians used to consult about their mostimportant affairs after being well warmed with wine."
"It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion."
"No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port."
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