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Quotes by French Authors
"People who know me know I'm strong, but I'm vulnerable."
"It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so."
"This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting."
"If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France."
"I think maybe the English don't want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved."
"The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe."
"History is the science of things which are not repeated."
"To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should."
"When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception."
"We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds."
"Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others."
"However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white."
"Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother."
"What must be the nature of the world... if human beings are able to introduce changes into it?"
"Noises have generally been thought of as indistinct, but this is not true."
"Everyday there's something that reminds me why I love this sport."
"Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does."
"Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport."
"When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines."
"If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are."
"You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character."
"There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer."
"Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being."
"Pacifists are like sheep who believe that wolves are vegetarians."
"Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair."
"Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me."
"The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other."
"You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out."
"It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived."
"France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions."
"I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance."
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