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Quotes by French Authors
"I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction."
"It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths."
"I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep."
"Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it."
"The discovery that I soon made that the guinea pig was also susceptible to infection made it possible for me, from the third year on, to preserve the virus on this animal."
"Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper."
"Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical."
"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you."
"I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am."
"Experience has taught me that you have to improve all the time-little bit by little bit-and not keeping starting everything from new."
"I went see the horror thriller, Hannibal. I am a massive fan of Anthony Hopkins. He is superb in the film."
"I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge."
"It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression."
"The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable."
"Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them."
"The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience."
"Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films."
"On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it."
"The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment."
"Even if it had not been possible to reproduce the disease in animals and consequently to verify the hypothesis, this simple observation would have been sufficient to demonstrate the way in which the disease was propagated."
"I don't snack all the time, but I do sometimes drink l more than I should."
"Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure."
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