French Quotes

My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it.

I leave before being left. I decide.

I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.

I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.

I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand.

They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.

I am 30, but there are things about me that are still 15.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.

Animals have never betrayed me. They are an easy prey, as I have been throughout my career. So we feel the same. I love them.

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

Do you have to have a reason for loving?

Money never prevented anyone from being happy or unhappy.

It is not a woman I want - it is all women.

I see too deep and too much.

Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

Love is the poetry of the senses.

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.