Quotes by french authors

I've only got one wrinkle, and I'm sitting on it. Jeanne Calment
Only Wrinkle Got Sitting
People's opinions don't interfere with me. Jeanne Moreau
Me People Opinions Interfere
I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid. Joan of Arc
God Time Me First Year Voice First Time Govern Heard Conduct Very Afraid Much Help
Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there. Joan of Arc
Love God Will Hatred Nothing France Those Out Except Thrown Know Die English Who
However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts. John Calvin
God Thoughts Will Our Liberality Exceed Wishes Blessings Always However His Expect Infinite Many
There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence. John Calvin
Confidence Intelligence Own Our Worse Out Spirit Block Than Screen
Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent. John Calvin
Good Grace Disagree Will Evil Absent Faculty He Does Augustine Teaches Choose Reason Assistance
All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice. Josephine Baker
Life Together Peace People World My Life Live All My Life Brought Maintained Learn Up Prejudice
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. Jules Renard
God Better Reputation Would Would-Be He Know His Exists
The world is an enormous injustice. Jules Romains
Injustice World Enormous
When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future. Jules Verne
Future Character Mind Value Past Doubt Changes Once Dread Entrance Performed Forget Forget The Past Gain Less Deeds Grow
Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Man Poor Man Every Almost Offence Poor Desire
One must work; one must work. I have done what I could. Louis Pasteur
Work Must Could Done
Patience is the art of hoping. Luc de Clapiers
Art Patience Hoping
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success. Luc de Clapiers
Success Sometimes Extraordinary Reckless Absurd Most Led Aspirations
Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts. Madame de Stael
Art Thoughts Politeness Your Choosing Among
The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings. Malcolm de Chazal
Beautiful Ugly Beauty Remains Surroundings
Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life. Marc Chagall
Life Work You Money Make Justify
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying. Marcel Proust
People Affection Other Our Ourselves Faint Dead Because Dying Them Grows
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. Marcel Proust
Work Book Seen Every Possible Kind Would Finds Writer Never He Merely Perhaps Instrument Discern Himself Reader Without Makes Optical
No harm will come to me. The Assembly is prepared to treat us leniently. Marie Antoinette
Me Treat Will Come Us Assembly Prepared Harm
We are in a world where globalization, which is an ideology, has forgotten and put aside the people, the people's interests, aspirations, and dreams. Marine Le Pen
Dreams People World Ideology Put Globalization Forgotten Where Which Aside Interests Aspirations
True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. Marquis de Lafayette
Rights Natural People Nation Entire True Sovereignty Which Republicanism Right Violate
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination. Marquis de Sade
Happiness Work Imagination Ideal
No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful. Marquis de Sade
Faith Good Will Lover Would See He Sincere Dead Mistress His Deny Than Unfaithful Prefer Good Faith
Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art. Michel Foucault
Work Truth Art Time Madness Abolition Absolute Break Which Forms Moment
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