Quotes by french authors

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. Victor Hugo

Light Fire Every Out Learn Read Spark Syllable

Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly. Victor Hugo

Me You Humanity Ugly Made Hell Tell Must Deity Outrage He Been His Very Reply Hell Is Your Image

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. Victor Hugo

Love Fathers Adore Does His Children Grandfather Grandson Who

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. Victor Hugo

Great Book Architecture Thought Every Great Ideas Religious Recorded Only Vast Ideas Human Race Page Human Race Human Thought Symbol

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms. Voltaire

Lie Feet Like Arms Die Should Your

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts. Voltaire

Thoughts Injustice Thought Men Only Conceal Employ Authority Use Speech

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved. Voltaire

Distinguish Must Silent Between Deceive Being Speaking Reserved

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead. Voltaire

Great He Dead Course Provided Friend Patriot Really Loyal Humanitarian

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it. Voltaire

Age Spirit Misery He Who

The superfluous, a very necessary thing. Voltaire

Funny Superfluous Very Thing Necessary

I love Madrid. Zinedine Zidane

Love Madrid

When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives. Abbe Pierre

People Young Despair Concerns Young People Should Lives Universal

My mind is often half-sleeping, like in a daydream. Agnes Varda

Mind Daydream Like Often

Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze. Aime Cesaire

You Sacrifice Breeze Reason Evening

There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise. Alain Badiou

Love Paradise Kind Almost Which Serenity

I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always. Alain Badiou

Women Assured Fact Feel Always Loved Really

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. Albert Camus

Truth Passion Nothing Cost Taste Any Which Spares