French Sayings And Quotes

by allinspiration.com

Here is a collection of French sayings and quotes from various authors, celebrities, famous persons, and other sources compiled by allinspiration.com for you to read and enjoy.

“ma chère penchons sur les filons géologiques – (my dear let us lean on geographical veins)”
– Aimé Césaire

” C’est cela l’amour, tout donner, tout sacrifier sans espoir de retour”
– Albert Camus

“Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Those who never do anything can never do anything wrong”
– Banville

“We say that time is a great teacher It’s too bad that it also kills all its students”
– Berlioz

“A fool can always find an even bigger fool to admire him”
– Boileau

“Ignorance is always ready to admire itself”
– Boileau

” Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l’admire – A fool can always find an even bigger fool to admire him”
– Boileau

“Faites-vous des amis prompts à vous censurer – Make friends with those who would be quick to criticize you”
– Boileu

“Faites-vous des amis prompts à vous censurer – Make friends with those who would be quick to criticize you”
– Boileu

“Genius is patience”
– Buffon

“Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins”
– Chamfort

“Cafe au lait – Coffee with milk”
– Coffee with milk

“To win without risk is a triumph without glory”
– Corneille

“Fear the enemy that knows your weakness”
– Corneille

” A vaincre sans péril, on triomphe sans gloire – To win without risk is a triumph without glory”
– Corneille

“To be seen as an idiot in the eyes of an imbecile is a pleasure worthy of a fine gourmet”
– Courteline

“Fine cooking is when the things you have cooked taste as they are”
– Curnonsky

“I have often regretted having spoken, but never for having not”
– De Commynes

” Je me suis souvent repenti d’avoir parlé, mais jamais de m’être tu – I have often regretted having spoken, but never for having not”
– De Commynes

“People never believe others capable of doing that which they themselves are not capable of doing”
– De Gondi

“It is difficult to master your passions and impossible to satisfy them”
– De La Sabliére

” Il est difficle de vaincre ses passions, et impossible de les satisfaire – It is difficult to master your passions and impossible to satisfy them”
– De La Sabliére

“To understand is to forgive”
– De Stael

“Comprendre, c’est pardoner – To understand is to forgive”
– De Stael

” Comprendre, c’est pardoner – To understand is to forgive”
– De Stael

“Criticism is easy, art is difficult”
– Destouches

“La critique est aisée, mais l’art est difficile – Criticism is easy, art is difficult”
– Destouches

” Quand il me prend dans les bras, Il me parle tout bas, Je vois la vie en rose”
– Edith Piaf

“There are three things I have always loved, and never understood – painting, music, women”
– Fontenelle

“Whether it is art or love, your instinct will suffice”
– France

“À la carte – On the menu, with each dish priced”
– French Saying

“À la mode – Fashionable; also, in the USA, with ice cream”
– French Saying

“Agent provocateur – A police spy employed to induce or incite a suspected person or group to commit an incriminating act”
– French Saying

“Aide-de-camp – An officer who assists a general in his military duties”
– French Saying

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