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Quotes by French Authors
"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again."
"The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live."
"True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is."
"Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time."
"And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing."
"The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us."
"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another."
"I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream."
"British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained."
"We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors."
"Nice, the club where I started my career in 1983, want me to see out my playing days there."
"I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence."
"If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away."
"Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things."
"Each new film is like a trial. Before I step in front of the camera, I do not know whether I am going to fall or whether I am going to fly - and that is exactly the way I want it to stay."
"All artists are now free to express their own personality."
"When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable."
"In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective."
"Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world."
"The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality."
"Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust."
"What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?"
"It made me hungry. I feel like I'm in a program that really helped me individually as a player. I feel like I'm with a group of guys that are like my best friends."
"When you are in the family... you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door."
"If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined."
"We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth."
"As a consequence of these hesitations and of the vague character of such innovations, the Commission on Human Rights itself had doubts from the beginning about its role and its functions in general."
"I have shaved my head. My flowing locks are now quite a bit shorter."
"When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself."
"I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her."
"Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken."
"Similarly, the problem of the rights of the state in the disposition of inheritances left by individuals presents social aspects of the first importance."
"Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race."
"We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together."
"When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical."
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