French Novelist Quotes

"It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove." — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Terre des Homme ["Wind, Sand, and Stars" in English] (1939) Add Category or Author

"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart." — Honore de Balzac
Le lys dans la vallée (The Lily of the Valley) (1836) Add Category or Author

"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it." — Andre Gide
Ainsi soit-il; ou, Les jeux sont faits, or, So be it; or, The chips are down, taken from Gide's journal of 1939-1949 The original French reads, "Croyez ceux qui cherchent la vérité, doutez de ceux qui la trouvent; doutez de tout, mais ne doutez pas de vous-même." Add Category or Author

"The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever." — Anatole France
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"Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey." — Alex Noble
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"It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship." — Sidonie Colette
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"If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud." — Emile Zola
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"There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved." — George Sand
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"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness." — Honore de Balzac
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"The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike." — Sidonie Colette
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"Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work." — Anatole France
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"A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way." — Honore de Balzac
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"Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear." — Anatole France
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"Patience is the art of hoping." — Vauvenargues Marquis
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"That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future." — Anatole France
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"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving." — Anatole France
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"One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere." — Guillaume Apollinaire
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"The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling." — Andre Gide
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"I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate." — Marguerite Duras
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"First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time." — Honore de Balzac
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"It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion." — Anatole France
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