“When a man gets drunk he gets sentimental. That's what I wanted to avoid.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a machine that manufactures love. Its other virtues escape me.” — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“Folly, error, sin, avarice Occupy our minds and labor our bodies, And we feed our pleasant remorse As beggars nourish their vermin.” — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
“Candide listened attentively and believed innocently; for he thought Miss Cunegonde extremely beautiful, though he never had the courage to tell her… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
Indeed, I still read a fair amount of French literature and I am very attracted to the emotional depth and simplicity of… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
Many Europeans think that all Moroccans speak French, but no. I had to make an effort to learn it when I studied… — Abdellah Taia Copy Share Image
“If I didn't try to assume responsibility for my own existence, it would seem utterly absurd to go on existing.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Isn't post-modernism really one big cover-up for the failure of the French to write a truly interesting novel ever since a sports… — John Leonard Copy Share Image
Twitter reminds me of an era in French literature - Emile Zola and Honoré de Balzac - and the beginning of modernity… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
“Nobody knew me at Buckton. Clem had chosen the town because of that; and besides, even if I had wimp out, there… — Boris Vian Copy Share Image
“He asked himself... whether it was not outrageous for society to treat thus precisely those of its members who were the least… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably...… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Whoever wishes to rise above the common level must be prepared for a great struggle and recoil before no obstacle. A great… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Victor Hugo continues to be popular today not because of his multivolume works, which people may never have time or patience to… — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
When I got to college I simply decided that I could speak French, because I just could not spend any more time… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
"The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool." Our quote of the day is, from of… — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
To Americans Boris Vian has long been one of the hidden glories of French literature. In I Spit on Your Graves, he… — Jim Krusoe Copy Share Image
“Many of them were familiar from childhood with the fables of La Fontaine. Or they had read Voltaire or Racine or Molière… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“The day, a compunctious Sunday after a week of blizzards, had been part jewel, part mud. In the midst of my usual… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal. — Jose Bergamin Copy Share Image
“Conscience, my dear, is a kind of stick that everyone picks up to thrash his neighbor with, but one he never uses… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
There is an interview given by [ Jean-Paul] Sartre in the USA where he is asked what the future of French literature… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
“A good woman should neither take offense nor blame herself for someone else's faults, but simply strive all the harder to do… — Heldris de Cornualles Copy Share Image
“Throughout the whole absurd life I'd lived, a dark wind had been rising toward me from somewhere deep in my future, across… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Art according to art! Love according to love! This is taking the salt away from Heaven. Do you think Our Savior tries… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Barrie and the wonderful characters he created, Lewis Carroll, even French literature, like Baudelaire or over in the States, Poe, you open… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
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