594 Quotes About French

MANGE DES MUFFINS!" - Bast

L'art rallume toujours les lumières du paradis perdu

I love the French edition with its uncut pages. I would not want a reader too lazy to use a knife on me.

(From Boulez, an authorized biography by Joan Peyser)At the chapel door he [a priest associated with a school Boulez attended] asked me if what he had been told was true: that Boulez no longer believed in God. I said it was...

I should point out, creating one's own style, as much as is required to illustrate one of the aspects, the golden seam of language, involves beginning again at once, in a different manner, adopting the guise of a pupil when one risked becoming pedantic - thus by a shrugging of one's shoulders, disconcerting some with their genuflecting stance, and immortalizing oneself in multiple, impersonal, or even anonymous forms in response to the gesture of arms raised in stupefaction.

Spécial" is one of those elusive French words that means something (or someone) is...peculiar. The use of it is one of the rare times that the French are noncommittal about their opinions.

On a deux vies et la deuxième commence le jour ou l'on se rend compte qu'on n'en a qu'une.

Il est plus facile d'être un voyageur ou un savant que d'être un ami, un amant. Plus aisé d'aimer les hommes vaguement que d'aimer à la perfection un seul être imparfait.

La compatibilité d’un couple ne détermine pas la destinée d’un mariage, c’est la façon dont vous gérez les incompatibilités qui est prédéterminante.