Quotes by french authors

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. Jean Giraudoux
Truth Nature Law Better Poet Lawyer Imagination Way Better Way Study Freely Exercising Than Ever Interpreted
There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking. Jean de la Bruyere
Music Painting Mediocrity Poetry Endured Which Public Certain Certain Things Speaking Public Speaking Things
A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less. Jean de la Bruyere
Great Small Eminence Great Person Greater Makes Person Less Position
Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth. Joan of Arc
Truth People Sometimes Say Hung Children Speaking
There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice. John Calvin
World Grass Blade Color Make Intended Us Rejoice
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness. John Calvin
Fear Overcome Pilot Will Sail Our Minds Weariness Seeing No Reason Allow Never Perish Ship Overwhelmed Which Midst Us Should Reason Who Even Why
Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. John Calvin
Knowledge Science Christ Smoke Sciences Heavenly Apart Much
Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you. Jules Renard
You Woman Will Other Tell Pretty Open Roads Like She Her
The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat. Jules Renard
Calm Cat Ideal Exists Sitting
Healthy people are invalids who don't know it. Jules Romains
People Healthy Know Healthy People Who
When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become. Louis Pasteur
Me Respect Become Approach Inspires Tenderness He Child May Sentiments Two
It is impossible to please all the world. Louis XIV
World Impossible Please All The World
Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something. Luc de Clapiers
People Something Lazy Lazy People Always Doing Anxious
The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures. Luc de Clapiers
Fruit Pleasures Labor Sweetest Derived
Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts. Luc de Clapiers
Thoughts Brainy Clarity Profound
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. Madame de Stael
Love Time Memory Love Is Fear Beginning Sense Destroying Out End Eternity Symbol
The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs. Malcolm de Chazal
Smile Flower Laughs Vase Longer Smiles
I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more. Marc Chagall
Love Soul Marriage Will Made Think Once Once More Give More My Soul Adore Am Prove Theater Painter Two
What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap. Marcel Duchamp
Art You Reality See Missing Exist Link Links Which Gap
It's good to shut up sometimes. Marcel Marceau
Good Sometimes Up Shut Shut Up
One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb. Marcel Pagnol
Machines Sewing Out Atomic Atomic Bomb Look End Up Begin Engineers Bomb
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey. Marcel Proust
Kindness Knowledge Doctor Obey Pay Pain Promise Only Most Make Heed Illness Whom Medical
No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother. Marie Antoinette
Heart Mother No-One Know Terror Does Understands Nor Who Ills Fills
We made our entrance into Paris. As for honors, we received all that we could possibly imagine; but they, though very well in their way, were not what touched me most. What was really affecting was the tenderness and earnestness of the poor people, who, in spite of the taxes with which they are overwhelmed, were transported with joy at seeing us. Marie Antoinette
Me People Joy Made Earnestness Our Honors Way Though Possibly Seeing Touched Paris Entrance Spite Could Tenderness Most Well Were Affecting Very Overwhelmed Which Poor Taxes Poor People Us Really Who Received Imagine
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust. Marquis de Sade
Life Strength Revenge Fluid Nervous Cruelty Ambition Lust Other Supports Passions Lends Avarice Them Founded
I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure. Marquis de Sade
You Woman Heart Path Other Way Torment Only Along Know Sure None
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