French Quotes

Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years.

If I had not passed through trial - through passion, one could say - through these years so painful and so rich, I don't believe I could take on my life and my career as I do today.

I'm in an agreeable state: busy, enthusiastic, curious.

I don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people.

I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings.

To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don't have to justify yourself to anyone, when there are not too many people bestowing you their attention.

One believes that if nothing happens, one disappears. That is not true.

My limits will be better marked. Both the limits I will set, and my own limits.

I've suffered too much to hide my feelings.

I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness.

I think that we all carry the divine within us.

I do not want to work to correspond to an image.

But no one frees himself from being in love in three days.

Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.

I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.

I believe in angels, so it's simple.

You protect your being when you love yourself better. That's the secret.

Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally.

Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.

In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them.

When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.

The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.

It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.

Women like silent men. They think they're listening.

It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.

I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger.

I fight fairly, and in good faith.

But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages.