Quotes by french authors

I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them. Brigitte Bardot

Kindness Important Important Things Tenderness Most Without Understood The Most Important Them Things

There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened. Charles Baudelaire

Time Space Awareness Immensely More Time And Space Existence Moments Profound

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. Charles Baudelaire

Garden Book Party Way Counselor Counselors Orchard Company Multitude

Always be a poet, even in prose. Charles Baudelaire

Poet Poetry Prose Always Even

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. Charles Baudelaire

Work Everything Considered Boring Oneself Than Less Amusing

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress. Charles Fourier

Rights Women Equality Progress Principle Social Social Progress Basic Extension

Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music. Christian Louboutin

Music Architecture Own Poetry Inspiring Because Istanbul Literature Code

Grit your teeth and smile. In the face of adversity, go. They don't deserve you. Christine Lagarde

Smile Adversity You Face Teeth Go Grit Your Deserve

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy. Claude Adrien Helvetius

Art Enemy Fear Discipline Soldiers More Simply Making Than Officers

There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature. Claude Debussy

Finally here is a beautiful day, a superb sun like at Giverny. So I worked without stopping, for the tide at this moment is just as I need it for several motifs. This has bucked me up a bit. Claude Monet

Beautiful Day Me Finally Several Bit Sun Superb Beautiful Day Like Tide Without Up Just Stopping Worked Moment Here Need

I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men. Coco Chanel

Women Men One Of The Things Know Any Want Why Things

Something I learned when I was very young: with cooking, it doesn't matter where you are; you can always cook. You can end up in small village in Peru where somebody's cooking, take a spoon and taste it, and you might not be too sure what you're eating, but you can taste the soul in the food. That's what is beautiful with food. Daniel Boulud

Beautiful Food You Soul Cooking Matter Somebody Young Too Eating Something Small Take Spoon Learned Sure Always End Up Very Taste Where Might Cook Peru Village

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. Edmond de Goncourt

Love Today Book First Half Lost Incomplete Other Ourselves Has-Been Must Absence Volumes Parted Feel Like Understand Been Exists Begin Lack Romantic Which Each Two Imagine

The fear of life, the fear of burdens and of duties, of annoyances and of catastrophes! The fear of life, which makes us, through dread of its sufferings, refuse its joys. Ah! I tell you, this cowardliness enrages me; I cannot forgive it. We must live - live a complete life - live all our life. Emile Zola

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. Eugene Ionesco

Astonishment Only Which Explanation Us Separates Incomprehensible Gateway

Makeup can make a woman look more beautiful at every age. Francois Nars

Beautiful Woman Age Every More Look Make Makeup

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Become Matters Minds Those Small Generally Occupy Greatness Incapable Who