French Quotes

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Civilization is what makes you sick.

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.

There were always questions about my parents; I got so fed up with that.

The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right.

The more sincere I could be, the better it would be for the film.

The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.

The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me.

It's nice that we have all these different films.

In France, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family.

I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest.