Quotes by french authors

Love in capital letters is important. It is impossible to live without love. You must have the feeling of being loved. All artists need love - from the audience, friends and relatives. But true and faithful friends are exceptionally rare. Mireille Mathieu

People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything. Moliere

Quality People Everything Having Know Learned Without Anything Ever

Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety. Moliere

Wise Extremity Perfect Leads Sobriety Reason

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws. Montesquieu

Weaken Laws Useless Necessary

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy. Montesquieu

Politics Democracy People Power Possessed Supreme Supreme Power Body

We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty. Montesquieu

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight. Montesquieu

Love Delight Exchange Hours Read To Love Ennui

The portrait I do best is of the person I know best. Nadar

Best Know Person Portrait

Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so. Nadia Boulanger

Music You Unless Would Rather Take Up Than Die

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything. Napoleon Bonaparte

Everything Audacity Undertake Anything

However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Fool Big Admire Him Always However Bigger

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate. Nicolas Chamfort

Easier Some Some Things Than Legalize Legitimate Things

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich. Nicolas Chamfort

Fashion Change Rich Vanity Industry Tax Poor Levied

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess. Nicolas Chamfort

Kindness Heart People Head Governed Chess Little Use

You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge of Him by yourself, provided you do not ascribe to the Creator the imperfections and limitations of created beings. Nicolas Malebranche

You Yourself Judge Will Imperfections Divine Never Him Limitations Judgments Unworthy Provided Dishonor Ascribe Them Created Beings Creator

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention. Ninon de L'Enclos

Invention Nothing Virtue Masculine Feminine Convenient

I'm very proud of 'The Words' and all the cast. I think Lee Sternthal and Brian Klugman are like new directors, and I really believe in them, and they're gonna rock everything. Nora Arnezeder

Words Believe Think Everything Cast Directors New Like Rock Proud Lee Very Them Gonna Really Brian

The perfect knowledge of events cannot be acquired without divine inspiration, since all prophetic inspiration receives its prime motivating force from God the creator, then from good fortune and nature. Nostradamus

Hollywood always represents this big dream and fairy tale in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work. Of course, we play fairy tale on the red carpet. It's all Cinderella. But when the clock strikes midnight, I turn into a gray mouse and I go home, and I take my dress off and it's over. That's Hollywood. Olga Kurylenko

Work Hard Work Home Me People Big Cinderella Minds Strikes Carpet Dream Dress Take Red Red Carpet Over Tale Fairy Course Fairy Tale Always Go Go Home Off Clock Mouse Just Represents Midnight Turn Hollywood Hard Play Gray

Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past. Olga Kurylenko

Music Memories Feelings Past Our Nostalgia Us Connected Many Things