Quotes by French authors
The exercise of natural rights has no limits but such as will ensure their enjoyment to other members of society.
Marquis De Lafayette
French military officer
This June, I'll travel once again to the Food and Wine Magazine Classic in Aspen, Colorado. For many years, my dear friend Julia Child and I have teamed up to teach classes together at the event; for the past seven years, my daughter, Claudine, has been my cooking partner on stage.
Jacques Pepin
French chef
Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
French priest
I think if people ask, 'How is Marion Bartoli?', they will always respond, 'She's a nice person.' That's what I'm most proud of.
Marion Bartoli
French tennis player
I started off in this dreadful, vulgar film called 'The Libertine.' I was just learning. I needed the money.
Audrey Tautou
French actress
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
French astrologer
Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.
Honore De Balzac
French novelist
The French people need to have all the facts so they can choose. And I won't be running away from it or hiding from it.
Nicolas Sarkozy
Former President of France
For he who can wait, everything comes in time.
Francois Rabelais
French writer
I'm not an over-thinker.
Camille Rowe
French-American model
I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your life, it becomes fictional. Of course, the truth is never far. But the story is created out of it.
Marjane Satrapi
French-Iranian novelist
A derby is a derby. When you play a derby, it is for winning, not just to play.
Patrice Evra
French former soccer player
Nothing need be apprehended from this miserable adventurer.
Louis Bonaparte
Former President of France
The beauty of America is its freedoms and the promise that you can achieve your dreams, no matter your race, sex, country of origin, sexual orientation or gender identity. This is something we continue to strive toward and fight for.
Karine Jean-Pierre
American political advisor
It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
Luc De Clapiers
French writer
It's exhilarating to read something that tells you that people saw something and felt something that you thought was so discreet. When they relate you to some of their own fantasies of who or how some actresses should be in movies. That's really kind of sweet!
Isabelle Adjani
French actress
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician
The fear of life, the fear of burdens and of duties, of annoyances and of catastrophes! The fear of life, which makes us, through dread of its sufferings, refuse its joys. Ah! I tell you, this cowardliness enrages me; I cannot forgive it. We must live - live a complete life - live all our life.
Emile Zola
French novelist
I don't believe that killing the French model in order to become the U.K. or the United States overnight is the solution. You have a big debate on inequality there, and for our society, a lot of inequality would not be bearable.
Emmanuel Macron
President of France
I wanted to first build a platform and then use it to shine a light on music/people that I believe in. This record label is for people across all corners of the world, to showcase all genres of music.
Dj Snake
French music producer
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