Quotes by French Authors - Page 7

When she raises her eyelids it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.
Colette
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was possible for me to execute myself.
Charles Montesquieu
Help yourself and heaven will help you.
Jean de La Fontaine
The Ancient Mariner said to Neptune during a great storm "O God you will save me if you wish but I am going to go on holding my tiller straight."
Michel de Montaigne
He who prays and labours lifts his heart to God with his hands.
Saint Bernard
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He does not say "My men were beaten " he says "I was beaten."
Antoine De Saint Exupery
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment and learn again to exercise ... his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
Albert Schweitzer
Being bored is an insult to oneself.
Jules Renard
When people are bored it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.
Jules Renard
A filly who wants to run will always find a rider.
Jacques Audiberti
Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.
Napoléon Bonaparte
Man cannot remake himself without suffering for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
Dr. Alexis Carrel
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Joseph Joubert
Let women be provided with living strength of their own.
Simone de Beauvoir
Faced with crisis the man of character falls back on himself.
Charles de Gaulle
Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.
Simone de Beauvoir
I leave before being left. I decide.
Brigitte Bardot
To be a man is precisely to be responsible.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
A man who finds no satisfaction in himself seeks for it in vain elsewhere.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
André Gide
Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.
Eugène Ionesco
He who complains sins.
Saint Francis de Sales
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
André Maurois
Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
La Rochefoucauld
To know oneself one should assert oneself.
Albert Camus
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all there is only the meaning we each give to our life an individual meaning an individual plot like an individual novel a book for each person.
Anaïs Nin
Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature with all its contradictions appetites aversions rages can one hope to understand a little ... oh I admit only a very little ... of what life is about.
Françoise Sagan
I am no longer what I was. I will remain what I have become.
Coco Chanel
He knows the universe and does not know himself.
Jean de La Fontaine
Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.
Georges Gurdjieff
Beware of allowing a tactless word rebuttal a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.
Anaïs Nin
The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
Napoléon Bonaparte
The fool shouts loudly thinking to impress the world.
Marie de France
One sees intelligence far more than one hears it. People do not always say transcendental things but if they are capable of saying them it is always visible.
Marie Leneru
Not being able to govern events I govern myself.
Michel de Montaigne
There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.
Louis XIV
The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
Honoré de Balzac
Old age is that night of life as night is the old age of day. Still night is full of magnificence and for many it is more brilliant than the day.
Anne-Sophie Swetchine
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
Brigitte Bardot
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
Brigitte Bardot
Humility is attentive patience.
Simone Weil
It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it is ridiculous to show it to others.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
George Sand
Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.
Anne-Sophie Swetchine
When one is pretending the entire body revolts.
Anaïs Nin
Each of us has a day ... when he has to accept finally the fact that he is a man.
Jean Anouilh
To succeed is nothing-it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.
Marie Leneru
A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
Bernard de Fontenelle
A hero is a man who does what he can.
Romain Rolland
At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand know the exact number of his defects and qualities. ... And above all accept these things.
Albert Camus
To do all that one is able to do is to be a man to do all that one would like to do is to be a god.
Napoléon Bonaparte
One must not hope to be more than one can be.
Nicolas de Chamfort
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
Saint Francis de Sales
I long to see everything to know everything to learn everything!
Marie Bashkirtseff
It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
André Gide
Our entire life ... consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
Jean Anouilh
Of all our infirmities the most savage is to despise our being.
Michel de Montaigne
Do not wish to be anything but what you are.
Saint Francis de Sales