French Quotes

French Quote of the day

L'utilité du vivre n'est pas en l'espace: elle est en l'usage.

Heureuse la mort qui oste le loisir aux apprests de tel equipage.

D'autant que nous avons cher, estre, et estre consiste en mouvement et action.

L'honneste est stable et permanent.

J'accuse toute violence en l'education d'une ame tendre, qu'on dresse pour l'honneur, et la liberté.

Je hay entre autres vices, cruellement la cruauté, et par nature et par jugement, comme l'extreme de tous les vices.

Il n'est rien qui tente mes larmes que les larmes.

Les naturels sanguinaires à l'endroit des bestes, tesmoignent une propension naturelle à la cruauté.

Nature a, (ce crains-je) elle mesme attaché à l'homme quelque instinct à l'inhumanité

In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

Speak in French when you can’t think of the English for a thing--turn your toes out when you walk---And remember who you are!

The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth.

On this matter I'm inclined to agree with the French, who gaze upon any personal dietary prohibition as bad manners.

That guys. Sideburns. You like him?"My back squirms. "You've asked me that before.""What I meant was, " he says, flustered. "Your feelings haven't changed? Since you've been

Almost anything is edible with a dab of French mustard on it.

What kind of person do you wish to be? A part of those who take action, who try the hardest, or of those who go with the flow?

I beg your pardon. Sometimes, it's true I can be stubborn.' 'Sometimes?' she added derisively. 'Quite often, ' he tempered.

You have to hold on and be patient. Pain lasts for a while, but you must leave room for happiness when you find it.

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{...]I began to feel tears of frustration build up in my eyes, yearning to free themselves from their glandular prisons.

There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after tow minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless.

Often, we melt into our ecstasies as though they were jams, as though we were sinking into syrupy bowls of gooseberries, of raspberries, of bilberries.

I’m quite capable of taking responsibility for my own death.

And there are so much easier ways to destroy a woman. You don't have to rape her or kill her

Look.” He stepped closer, his voice lowered to a gruff murmur, and lifted her chin with his finger, forcing her to meet his gaze – which just made her want to stretch up and kiss him.

Gunfire cracked around them. “Just warning shots, ” he yelled. “How do you know?” “We’re not dead.

A deep kiss can put you in an emotional state of coma, sometimes in a reckless vulnerability, we lose virginity and sanity, and maybe our bond of love becomes strong or weak.

There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.

The lines of her face, turned up to the sky, would have broken your heart.

Mais, vrai, J'ai trop pleure! Les aubes sont navrantes. What a sad and beautiful line that is. I'd always hoped that someday I'd be able to use it.

If you could have walked on the planet before humans lived here, maybe the Ivory Coast would have seemed more beautiful than La Côte d'Azur.

He turned around to see the bass drum popping and the horn sections pointing their instruments to the balconies and sending glorious notes to the rooftops.

My grandpa, unlike Jarod Kintz, was an Elder. Now that he's dead and gone, he's a ghost French wizard. And no one knows what French wizards are good at…

It is not the business of a Queen to be human.

To pronounce French properly you must have within you a deep antipathy, not to say scorn, for some of the most sacred of the Anglo-Saxon prejudices.

They have a very low rate for attempted murder and a high rate for successfully concluded murder. It seems that when a French person sets out to kill someone, they make a good job of it.

What is the French word for rain? Le rain? La rain? Is the rain masculine or feminine? It’s such a bother that it must be masculine.

The situation is like this: they hired our parents to destroy this world, and now they'd like to put us to work rebuilding it, and -- to add insult to injury -- at a profit.

I loved him, you know, ' she said. 'I would have loved him as hard as he'd let me, for the rest of my life.

Etre dans le vent, c'est avoir le destin des feuilles mortes.

No one's serious at seventeen, When lindens line the promenades

We are not our own light.

Sometimes, the choices we make have devastating consequences

Parisians were not easy to engage in conversation. Perhaps that was why the Resistance had been so successful.

Kill the king but spare the man.

I like how writing can take you off for a jaunt in your head and then set you back down in the chair where you've been all along.

I go to seek a Great Perhaps.

I did not want to be taken for a fool – the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.

If bliss are a type of potato, then ignorance can be french-fried