French Quotes

Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.

Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

Genius is childhood recalled at will.

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.

I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.

Always be a poet, even in prose.

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.