Quotes by french authors

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs. Gustave Flaubert

Me Memories Back Possess Seems Date Always Existed

I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none. Gustave Flaubert

Love Good Sense Above Good Sense Perhaps Because None

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal. Gustave Flaubert

Success Must Goal Success Is Consequence

Anything is possible as long as you have the passion. Guy Forget

You Passion Long Possible Anything Anything Is Possible

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck. Guy de Maupassant

War Government Duty Every Ship Shipwreck Much Avoid Captain

Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love. Hector Berlioz

Love Music Give Idea May Cannot While Express

It is not a woman I want - it is all women. Henri Barbusse

Woman Women All Women Want

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality. Henri Bergson

Reality Other Apprehension Some Faculty Intellect Than Necessary

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity. Henri Bergson

Fault Laughter Laughable Vanity Only Cure

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools. Henri Bergson

Intelligence Tools Objects Faculty Make Making Artificial

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn. Henri Bergson

Humanity Genius Learn Forces Inertia Which

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. Henri Cartier-Bresson

Great Reality Joy Breath Photograph Physical Faculties Mastering Becomes Intellectual Precise Hold Converge Fleeting Moment Capture Image

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light. Henri Matisse

Time Myself Light Long Long Time Power Picture Possess Must Rather Through Generate Real Been Real Power Expressing Now Conscious

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language. Henri Matisse

Exactitude is not truth. Henri Matisse

Truth

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better. Henri Matisse

Better Will Tree Must Instinct Thwarted Branches Prune Just Grow

If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it. Henri Rousseau

War Mother King Tries Forbid Him Go Should Start

I love you all too much, it's one of just of my problems. Herve Villechaize

Love You Problems Too Much Too Just Love You Much

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. Hippolyte Taine

Wisdom Cats Pet Superior Philosophers Studied Infinitely Many

A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity. Honore de Balzac

Words Sign Sure Sure Sign Duplicity Flow

Finance, like time, devours its own children. Honore de Balzac

Finance Time Own Like Children

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. Honore de Balzac

Art Religion History Humanity Passion Would Would-Be Without Novels

Love is a game in which one always cheats. Honore de Balzac

Love Game Love Is Cheats Always Which

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth. Honore de Balzac

Youth Intelligence Passion Fools Insight Give Observed Sort Idiots Brings