Quotes by french authors

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you. Francoise Sagan
You Men Sense Unless Dress No Sense Inspires Take Makes Off
You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine. Francoise Sagan
Love Death You Celebrate Laughter Wine Dancing Songs New Affair Lot New Orleans End Love Affair Should Orleans
Often the masses are plundered and do not know it. Frederic Bastiat
Know Masses Often
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace. Gaston Bachelard
Home Peace Benefit Say Dream Dreamer Name House Protects Shelters Were Chief Asked Should
Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life. George Sand
Life More Than Often Resemble Resembles Novel Novels
The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession. George Sand
Indestructible Obsession Trade Authorship Violent
I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it. George Sand
Earth Possess Those See Born Kings Brow Having More Only Bought Noble Lord Were Truly Than Far Seal Who
No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand. George Sand
Humanity Revolution Everybody Some No-One Takes Knowing Himself Because Without Makes How Accomplishes Hand Revolutions Quite Which Them Who
A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread. Georges Bernanos
Hope Needs Man Illusion Poor Man Nothing More His Than Bread Poor Belly
The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us. Georges Bernanos
God Prayer Wish More Pray Itself Than Ask Us
Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it. Georges Bernanos
Faith Knowledge Speak Our Those Destroy Punishment Though Ourselves Kind Supernatural Purity Mysterious Divine Obvious Does Were Imposed Conditions Which Us Need
Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny. Georges Braque
Art Picture Once Destiny Has-Been Object New Accepts Been Incorporated
If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable. Georges Courteline
Life People Other Everything Would Would-Be Unbearable Oneself Permits Tolerate Necessary
In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels. Georges Jacques Danton
Remains Greatest Scoundrels Authority Revolutions
Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science. Georges Seurat
Science Say See Some Only Poetry Paintings
Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world. Gerard De Nerval
Life Dreams World Our Our Dreams Those Penetrate Able Never Invisible Without Been Ivory Which Us Separate Shudder Second Gates
The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection. Guillaume Apollinaire
Truth Nature Unity Virtues Purity Subjection Plastic Keep
Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal. Gustave Courbet
Painting Negation Visible Ideal Essence Representation Realism Forms
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts. Gustave Flaubert
Me Doubt Everything About Mania Deplorable Doubts Even
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying. Gustave Flaubert
Life Education Everything Must Constant Learn Dying Speaking
What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing. Gustave Flaubert
Young See Sees Sitting Elder Standing
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough. Gustave Flaubert
You Long Enough Look Becomes Anything Interesting
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. Gustave Flaubert
Love Hope Love Is Plant Everything Ruins Springtime Which Even
The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded. Gustave Flaubert
Humanity Degraded More Advances
Read much, but not many books. Gustave Flaubert
Books Read Much Many
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him. Gustave Flaubert
Work God Sense Creation Everywhere Must See All-Powerful Never Invisible Him His Artist
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